Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [pron] [was/were] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They played golf every Saturday if it was at all possible . |
| 2 | When I knew it , in 1941 , I was a newly commissioned , very nervous officer billeted up the road in a cotton-mill-owner 's abandoned mansion on a hillside in a suburb called Ramsbottom ( locally known as Tupsarse because it was at the ‘ end of everything ’ ) . |
| 3 | Yeah , but again there is , there are more houses at Walberswick than there were at East Bra is it Bravance or Badance ? |
| 4 | In the thirties the business expanded , with further branches opening in the North of England and Scotland and it was at this point that the name Beaverbrooks was adopted . |
| 5 | ‘ You know , I 'm getting quite used to this invisible business , ’ Mitch muttered to Maggie when they were at last settled to their table . |
| 6 | A nurse who had cared devotedly for Nigel when he was at home agreed to ice it for me . |
| 7 | I learned a lot from Ellery Hanley when he was at Wigan . |
| 8 | We stayed in a cottage on the cliffs , overlooking the harbour , and within moments of arrival , my brother Ian and I were at the end of the pier , fishing . |
| 9 | I have n't actually seen Charley since his return , as he called on Hamish while I was at work , but at lunchtime today I conveyed your presents for Christopher and Lydie to Jenners Rose Street restaurant and placed them in Inga 's hands ( a handy reminder to me of their birthdays , too ) . |
| 10 | Mrs Tiller presided over the one in Blackpool while he was at the grander one in Addlestone , Surrey , to which , when the Girls were playing in London , he would invite small groups for a short weekend . |
| 11 | My thirst for real travel was to have its very modest beginnings on the railways of the Midlands when I was at B.P. My journeying consisted of little trips to neighbouring towns within a radius of fifty miles north , south , east and west of Bletchley . |
| 12 | There was as little reason to delay Kerrison as there was at present to suspect him . |
| 13 | The struggles in the West Indies in the 1690s were probably less devastating than those of the 1660s , and the French missed a chance to press home an attack on Jamaica when it was at its most vulnerable , just after the great earthquake of 1692 had destroyed the original capital of Port Royal . |
| 14 | ‘ Anna and I were at Alassio . |
| 15 | This still held good under Henry III and Edward I. But there were at least two means whereby the un-welcome connotations of homage for the king-duke of Aquitaine could be made more acceptable . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've known Geoffrey since he was at prep school . |
| 17 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 18 | Wendy and I were at once amused and embarrassed , but also concerned lest he be mown down by a passing train . |
| 19 | P. E. When we were at Old Swan and had to go to Fairfield , we used to pass the end of one of the little streets there . |
| 20 | CHESHIRE housewife Tamara Kennerley , a girlfriend of Clinton when he was at Oxford , was among the first to offer her congratulations . |
| 21 | Uncle Bill as he was at the age of twenty-eight over seventy years ago . |
| 22 | As someone who worked in the BMC when it was at its height , and who has very long acquaintance with both protagonists , I can vouch for the veracity of Dennis 's story as told here , and can only lament the nit-picking which has continued even after its publication in this book . |
| 23 | ‘ Charles and I were at Sussex together . |
| 24 | I was a student in London but I was at home on this occasion when I met someone in the park . |
| 25 | On one of these trips to London when I was at school , good when we went with the Brownies , I went two or three times and er , one time when I was a bit older , I mean the first time I went as I say I was only about seven , but , when I was a bit older I went again , they said if |
| 26 | His next move , also as sous chef , was to Chez Nico to work for Nico Ladenis when he was at Shinfield , Berkshire . |
| 27 | Along with the Thwaites at High Birk Hatt the Fawcetts kept a neighbourly eye on the Hauxwells when they were at their most vulnerable . |
| 28 | I met this fellow from Newmarket when we were at The University Arms in Cambridge . |
| 29 | Cong Poc and his wife Hin lived in Kirkbymoorside with their three children after being forced to flee Vietnam when it was at war with China 14 years ago . |