Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was at the antenatal clinic . |
| 2 | Leeds ' disallowed first half goal , just after the canaries ' one , looked good to me but I was at the other end of the pitch peering through the floodlit rainstorm . |
| 3 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
| 4 | A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo . |
| 5 | I was at the recent launch of Opportunity 2000 , an excellent initiative by Business in the Community . |
| 6 | I was at the Royal Academy this year , and the portraits there were almost universally vile . |
| 7 | In 1974 I was at the National Theatre doing Shakespeare with Sir John Gielgud and whenever there was a play it was in repertory form , so another play came on and I had five days off , so I 'd fly to Toronto , have a three day ‘ loon ’ in Canada and then come back . |
| 8 | ‘ I was at the National Theatre doing a play about a flying picket called Line ‘ Em by Nigel Williams . |
| 9 | I was at the top end one , and all the draught come through the door , paralysed me . |
| 10 | ‘ I was at the first-night party of Come Blow Your Horn , ’ said Braden , ‘ and remember being completely fooled by his American accent in the play , so I was very surprised to hear him talking in an English accent afterwards . ’ |
| 11 | I remember when I was at the Open University , the people who were engaged in implementing Open University programmes in the States , who were the deans in charge of the Open University experiments , were all women and all ‘ marginal ’ to the mainline male career people . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They put a lot of effort into it , but I tell you what , if I read Access , I would never have believed I was at the same conference . |
| 14 | Must say , I know some of you do n't like boxing , erm , I was at the last tournament in Honiton . |
| 15 | I was at the local convent school from twelve to eighteen years old and I was considered clever but ‘ strange ’ . |
| 16 | About 15,000 feet presumably someone called ‘ Tally Ho ! ’ because I suddenly saw three Ju88s , which were at the same height , slightly to my left , range about 1,000 yards , and heading away from Malta . |
| 17 | I saw a white male nearest to us , in in a double bed which was at the other end of the the the bedroom . |
| 18 | As she made her way to the blue and white tiled bathroom which was at the other end of the house , there was another clap of thunder and the lightning flashed again . |
| 19 | The fire brigade which was at the first blaze about 100 yards away extinguished the second fire in a short time . |
| 20 | Under the leadership of Paolo and Laura Mora , they reconstructed portions of fresco such as the ‘ Seraph ’ , shown in the Mantegna exhibition which was at the Royal Academy in London and which opens in New York this month . |
| 21 | Apart from Classic Illustrated , which was at the top end of the market , a wide range of other comics contained significant amounts of chemistry . |
| 22 | That is the scheme er as as I see it and unless , unless I I thi , unless that is progressed quickly then as I say I am extremely pessimistic and let me just say Chairman the dangers of not going along that line the dangers of the present scheme which was at the last planning committee meeting or or or was it one of the social services committee anyway , where four were chosen or or it was said choose a small number . |
| 23 | From this perspective , electoral politics were only one aspect of the struggle , and the parliamentary leaders were considered subordinate to the leadership of the mass party , which was at the same time the leadership of the class itself Conservative and liberal parties , however much they in fact represented class interests , saw themselves as parties functioning within an established social order and a system of political institutions in which parliament was supreme . |
| 24 | I cycled to his house which was at the bottom end of Debenham and was right next to the River Deben . |
| 25 | Cowslip himself was at the other end of the hall and Hazel realized that he was waiting for him to reply . |
| 26 | In making this break with tradition , James , it seems , had come to the conclusion that it was time for the intellectual elite to shut up and listen to the workers for a change for it was they who were at the sharp end of the production system and therefore they who first sensed any changes in patterns of production . |
| 27 | On page five , those of you who were at the last council meeting will know that the City Centre Management Working Party were charged with the responsibility of looking at the whole issue of street trading . |
| 28 | Well on the issue of what 's happening in the er Health Authority here , it 's a very much erm a surprise to everybody because those of us who were at the last meeting that we had , only a couple of months ago , to quite categorically saying that , she , that she was just not interested in the . |
| 29 | Now come on Stephen you were at the same debate that I was at , the housing committee . |
| 30 | As usual when drunk , he spoke to her as if she was at the other end of the street . |