Example sentences of "[was/were] at [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what er , I said , told Pete because I had another call when you were at lunch I think and erm he said he 'd heard rumours that we were looking for somebody . |
| 2 | If you talk to women in the sort of project where she 's working , I think you do get a very strong picture of people who have very little confidence in themselves and certainly think that education is not for them , and if you then look at projects like second chance for women , there 's a range of access projects , particularly for for people who want to get back into education when they think that they 've had precious little chance to get anything out of education when they were at school themselves . |
| 3 | But when they were at school they were just in and out , and home at 3.30 p.m . |
| 4 | Can you remember when you were at school what sort of games you used to play ? |
| 5 | when were at home we had to have it every week did n't we ? |
| 6 | Wilson had to trot briskly , to keep up with his wife ; and he trotted responsibly , because there was no doubt that he was proud of his charge — tall and upright as a Grenadier Guard as she was , and issuing instructions in the way that I imagine a Grenadier might , so that when they were at home her voice would sometimes float right up the road and into our garden , ‘ Wilson ! |
| 7 | If they 're in here working all day and everyday and they see the other girls taking exams and they know I 'm going to make them work , quite often they 'll take the exams because there 's no point in not taking them , whereas I think if they were at home they would not have the same incentive . |
| 8 | At home , when they were at home they had bells in their home , and erm by pressing the appropriate button , er an electrical charge was sent across these wires , it was private wires to these homes and the bell rang , and as soon as the bell rang all hell broke loose in these , these homes . |
| 9 | said he went to the police station but it follows that you were were at home which . |
| 10 | But er however things went on and er we , we 've had very bad years some years when the we , stuck too much I think to some of the Morris of course er they had their troubles of course and , and then eventually we , it was funny we were the only two people in the whole of Britain who h ho held the agencies for Austin and Morris together and we were at times we were thinking we must lose one of them . |
| 11 | But it , it did and , and I think there again a little bit of Guild influence because when er we were at meetings we would say , well what are you going to do about the er drapery you know and eventually we did get this better erm you know , drapery . |
| 12 | When you said you were at Acre you were there with the King . |
| 13 | When we were at college he used to invite people to ‘ cleaning parties ’ once a month . |
| 14 | Adams stated that whilst he and Moore were at supper he saw an unusual light in the direction of the Body Shop but , instead of going to see what it was and turning on the water from the hydrants to endeavour to arrest the progress of the flames , he caused the alarm bell to be rung and then ran to the gate to admit the Fire Brigade . |
| 15 | Many hundred meeting places were at ancient sites in the landscape like barrows or stones , where they could have taken place for millennia , while others were at places which had other functions as well , such as centres of royal or ecclesiastical estates which coincided with hundredal arrangements . |
| 16 | We were at Queensbury it 's |
| 17 | It was at Serenity we lost Angie , a few years later . |
| 18 | No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep |
| 19 | Er now , the source was at university which means that he 's gone gone home . |
| 20 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 21 | And if it were only the future of the Conservative Party that was at stake I would probably agree that electoral chastening would be a good thing . |
| 22 | Whether Mrs Thatcher really was at home no-one quite seemed to know . |
| 23 | If he was at home we were always welcome in his study . |
| 24 | Most of her clothes were either tailored for work or casual ; when she was at home she normally only wore jeans and sweaters , she thought , then gave a little laugh at her behaviour . |
| 25 | When Alison was at home she was an intrusive presence . |
| 26 | wh I remember that when I was at home it was a mixed sort of meeting in which some of the people from the village were coming who you did n't really know but they had to be asked |
| 27 | When he was at home he had begun living at the School , where he boarded up the broken windows and had the chimneys cleaned . |
| 28 | She 'd tried and she she did n't , her husband was at home he was n't in the Forces but th this was the attitude . |
| 29 | When the men of the World Council of Churches in Geneva heard Arthur was at Caux they phoned him to come and tell them the truth about Rhodesia . |
| 30 | When I was at school they had n't signed them . |