Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was the middle-class son of a comfortably well-off Glasgow bookie — I was even educated at George Heriot 's in Edinburgh . ’ |
| 2 | I have n't got any with me , and I was just looking at graphs for someone else earlier . |
| 3 | I was just looking at vehicle operating cost savings . |
| 4 | I was once photographed at Cap d'Agde sans culotte for the cover of the first issue of the review section of a national newspaper — in the interests of serious research , you understand , on nudist colonies . |
| 5 | Er I think one of the greatest er causes of s absenteeism , it was n't so much ill health er not on the part of the pupil , I think it was more er if something was wrong within th family , particularly if you was an elder daughter or an elder boy , you see and erm , if your mother was ill or or confined you see , you were probably kept at home er for those sort of reasons to either look after the the younger children at home or to help to look after home . |
| 6 | A woman who claims she was sexually assaulted at work wants the court to disregard the fact she used to be a man . |
| 7 | She was then based at Portland from where she sailed on four month training cruises . |
| 8 | She was now looking at Grace . |
| 9 | The girl 's defence solicitor said she was now living at home after months in a children 's home during family difficulties . |
| 10 | In August , she was still working at Chessington-Harris as Leo 's secretary ; but for over a year their relationship had been considerably warmer than any of their colleagues realized . |
| 11 | She was mainly educated at home by governesses , and at school in Southport and later at the High School for Girls , Manchester . |
| 12 | Thank God I had the sense not to bring the painter in with me : I simply dropped the anchor as I scrambled on board , so that she was safely held at anchor . |
| 13 | In talking about USE and CHOICE in Chapter 1 we were implicitly looking at language from the author 's point of view . |
| 14 | Cattle owned by the peasantry were easy to steal because they were rarely folded at night . |
| 15 | Also , the findings for the causal task indicate that even five-year-olds have some knowledge of the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning , in that their mean score is considerably higher than the score ( of 8 ) which one would expect if they were simply responding at chance level . |
| 16 | It would not be true to say that they were well received at Holywell Haugh that evening . |
| 17 | Dolphins on Nene Valley vessels were first shown by Artis ( fig 14.6 ) and they were also produced at Colchester . |
| 18 | It is presumed that they were then introduced at BMK but it is also recorded that hand loom weaving had already stopped at Burnside in 1881 when second hand power looms rom Crossleys of Halifax were introduced . |
| 19 | There were some reports so confidential that even Jean might not see them ; they were better kept at home . |
| 20 | Synthonia are now the only side without a win after they were soundly beaten at Blackhall . |
| 21 | They are people who are old enough to go to war , and I think that there is a difficulty , you know , a major amoral difficulty or ethical difficulty in attempting to continue to treat young people as if they were still living at home and were not young adults but were really children . |
| 22 | They had both been asked about other men who were in France and answered patiently , knowing that the distraught women who asked them were only clutching at straws . |
| 23 | It was also discovered at Warwick that , if we dislike an aroma , we are able to block its effect on the central nervous system . |
| 24 | It was belatedly discovered at Lemnos that the transport ships had been incorrectly loaded so that crucial material , required immediately on landing , had been packed at the bottom of the holds . |
| 25 | IT WAS PROBABLY MADE AT LIMOGES . |
| 26 | The computer misuse act is aimed at criminal activity , it was primarily aimed at people who either hack into other computers or misuse the computers that are in front of them . |
| 27 | Yet in spite of this regression to the use of Hollywood racist images , it was still applauded at Creteil . |
| 28 | It was indeed waged at times with a bitterness and pettiness which did the COS no credit . |
| 29 | He was conditionally discharged at Marylebone court , London . |
| 30 | Almost 30 when he was finally crowned at Scone , and with his naturally introspective , melancholy temperament soured by long , enforced idleness , he drove himself to become a man of action and set about destroying those who had grown rich and powerful in his absence , especially the Albany faction . |