Example sentences of "[was/were] at the [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They heard the siren and were at the entrance ready to take over as soon as the boy was carried out of the ambulance . |
| 2 | ‘ You were at the Republican National Convention . ’ |
| 3 | Its public premiere was at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , on 19 May 1947 , first night of a tour which also brought the company a change of name , to Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet . |
| 4 | He was at the Cotswold Wild Life Park to lend his expertise for Kids Out — an annual fun day for children with special needs . |
| 5 | Mr Nearn , who was at the time sole concessionaire for the Seven , supplied the car used in the series . |
| 6 | For Christopherson it was an ‘ exciting time , especially for engineers ’ , since engineering was at the time underrepresented and low priority in the universities . |
| 7 | His patient , a girl whose age was uncertain — he judged her to be about fourteen or fifteen — was at the moment quiescent , her face as grey as the linen on which she lay , her eyes closed . |
| 8 | He was at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos last month , mingling with the great and the good . |
| 9 | In the first week of February , while Dowding was at the World Economic Forum at Davos , Switzerland [ see p. 37268 ] , influential members of the state ALP apparently decided that he should be replaced by Lawrence , then State Education and Aboriginal Affairs Minister . |