Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wendy and I were at once amused and embarrassed , but also concerned lest he be mown down by a passing train . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The earth curved up and around me wherever I went , as if I were at the bottom of a dish , and no matter how far I travelled I could get no nearer the rim — like a spaceman hurtling , as he thinks , towards the edge of the universe , only to find it unfolding before him and closing in behind , so that he is always at the centre . |
| 4 | ‘ Did you know that he and I were at school together ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Anna and I were at Alassio . |
| 6 | ‘ Rory 's a chap Bootsy and I were at school with , ’ she said . |
| 7 | I 'm far too tired , even if I were at all tempted . |
| 8 | He and I were at a lobby at the House of Commons yesterday , in er , celebration of the mobility allowance , which campaigned very successfully , and we , in the Community Transport field , have very close working relationships and communication . |
| 9 | ‘ Charles and I were at Sussex together . |
| 10 | When I were at the parents ' evening I said does that mean er he never sits still and he 's always tearing about and |
| 11 | and they said everybody there 's a meeting , so I thought oh christ cos it was just a standard joke me and Elaine , cos the last meeting they had , I were at the leisure shop then and they called the meeting to tell us it was the end and it was closing , and me and Elaine sneaked down the hall and we were going like this |
| 12 | aye , so I I were at er |
| 13 | See I 've got to remember , you see a few of them I had a load of them all talking , you know when I were at school ? |
| 14 | I were just like that when I were at home on me own at night , John used to play dominoes on a Friday night , the kids were in bed I 'd be in and out of kitchen |
| 15 | Who 'd have believed , I were at other night right ? |
| 16 | We had next to none when I was at drama school and young actors need to know more about what will be expected of them on film sets and television studios . |
| 17 | Indeed when I was at the police college in 1987 and Jones was on the Senior Command Course prior to taking up a position as assistant chief constable , I took a straw poll among my immediate colleagues to see what influence such books achieve . |
| 18 | A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda . |
| 19 | I decided to stay where I was at the moment until things quietened down . |
| 20 | Twenty minutes later I was at the head of the queue . |
| 21 | Twice I was at the cinema when it burned down . |
| 22 | I was at the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , as an assistant manager , and there were a hundred and twenty-two on the staff . |
| 23 | So , through no fault of my own , I was at a loose end quite a bit . |
| 24 | When I was at university ( actually a rather seedy teacher training college in south-east London ) nobody could afford to run a car . |
| 25 | He gets annoyed if I say anything about it , but that does n't stop him going on about how slim I was at 17 when we first met . |
| 26 | ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes . |
| 27 | ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes . |
| 28 | He 'd meet me from school — I was at drama school then . |
| 29 | I was at that time in Jesus Christ , Superstar . |
| 30 | In 1974 I was at the National Theatre doing Shakespeare with Sir John Gielgud and whenever there was a play it was in repertory form , so another play came on and I had five days off , so I 'd fly to Toronto , have a three day ‘ loon ’ in Canada and then come back . |