Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] was at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well David said that we were at the end , everyone believed that they were that the time has come that we was at the end of the world . |
| 2 | ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’ |
| 3 | His dad was Mickey who keeps goal for Colchester United , I do n't know if he was at the match , but he was , er had a very good game . |
| 4 | For he had suddenly realised that she was at the end of her tether — for what reason he did not know , and neither did he care , only that he must go warily with her , lest he damage her beyond repair . |
| 5 | At this Drew became disturbed and emotional , and said that , if the three people that he had previously named — the Lindos and Norman Stubbs , the stage manager — could not testify that he was at the theatre at the time of the murder , he knew of no-one else who could , but he certainly did not commit any murder , nor was he seen in Cross Street with blood on his face . |
| 6 | He assumed she was guilty , took it for granted that she was at the foot of everything , and that left a bitter taste in her mouth . |
| 7 | They had enquired if he was at the pottery and been told that he was not . |
| 8 | Gorman , 61 — MP for Billericay in Essex — did not appear because she was at the Tory conference in Brighton . |
| 9 | He had not got where he was at the age of thirty-three by giving way to pointless speculation and neurotic inner enquiry . |
| 10 | She could see that he was at a loss for words — which was reason enough for her to be pleased with her impetuous decision . |
| 11 | Thank you Chair , as the chair of that meeting yesterday , I was wondering if I was at the same committee as this m these minutes came from , because when I read the minutes two and three , I certainly did n't remember us passing those . |
| 12 | The seeds of a dramatic career were first sown while he was at the University of Indiana studying music . |
| 13 | " What happened while he was at the Lab had a hell of a lot to do with you . |
| 14 | John was an only child whose mother had died when he was at the difficult and demanding age of toddlerhood . |
| 15 | And when Rodriguez did not answer him he said very quietly , ‘ Was it because of anything that happened when he was at the Escuela Mecánica de la Armada ? ’ |
| 16 | Accounts differ as to when the unit insignia was first worn , but several of the ‘ Originals ’ maintain that it was at the end of the training period and before the first operation . |
| 17 | At this point ( overhead the BS ) the Vanguard , while steering approximately north , called that it was at the MN beacon and was advised to report the BN on final approach . |
| 18 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 19 | I could just hear because I was at the front of the class . |
| 20 | I was , however , devoted to the three dogs I owned while I was at The Milebrook . |
| 21 | Almost a month went by before she allowed herself an evening to realise that there was at the very least and latest , an unfinished conversation between them . |
| 22 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 23 | Edward , an infrequent attender , complained that he was at a disadvantage , having been to a public school ; the others , who had been to state schools had unfair practice at this sort of thing . |
| 24 | However , reading his piece ( Market Place , July 112 ) I wonder if he was at the same Royal Show as I was . |
| 25 | Mr Scott 's removal from office was demanded by one shareholder who said that he was at the helm when the company 's finances went in to the red . |
| 26 | Moreover , capacity utilization was considerably lower when the previous upswing had begun than it was at the start of the mini-boom of 1972–3 . |
| 27 | A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo . |
| 28 | And Violet Hunt , loyally selling copies at half-price in her drawing room , confesses in her memoir I Have This to Say that she was at a loss to explain why the damned were damned , and the blest were blest . |
| 29 | She let him pass her , fifty yards to the east ; the temptation to shout was wrong but she waited until he was at the hedge . |
| 30 | The rule also affected Henry Cotton , who took up the post at Royal Waterloo , Belgium , in 1933 and thus missed two Ryder Cup matches when he was at the peak of his powers . |