Example sentences of "[was/were] then at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Charles arrived from Eton , where he was then at school , he had primed his friends beforehand to give false names . |
| 2 | ‘ Before the reign of James the Fifth , a Highland Laird made a trial of his wife for a certain time , and if she did not please him , he was then at liberty to send her away ’ — which is exactly what took place when a Macdonald married a Macleod . |
| 3 | His output in these later years shows that he made every effort to adapt to changing economic circumstances : Austria was then at war with the Ottoman Empire , and the war effort had begun to drain the financial resources of the upper-class patrons on whose support Mozart relied . |
| 4 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 5 | Luke waited for the last call and was then at length guided , with much unreturned civility , into the plane 's nose . |