Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [pron] was at the " in BNC.

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1 Under the leadership of Paolo and Laura Mora , they reconstructed portions of fresco such as the ‘ Seraph ’ , shown in the Mantegna exhibition which was at the Royal Academy in London and which opens in New York this month .
2 Under the mop of curls his face , without the emphasizing make-up he wore perpetually on the train , looked younger and more ordinary : it was David Flynn who was at the races , not Zak .
3 Sally Taylor and her sister Mary who was at the birth told the coroner they throught obstetrician Mr Euan Laird was straining …
4 A police officer who was at the scene of the crash said , ‘ Mrs Gallagher was travelling on her own side when struck by a vehicle coming from the opposite direction on her side of the road . ’
5 The fire brigade which was at the first blaze about 100 yards away extinguished the second fire in a short time .
6 James Cropper who was at the centre of the efforts to establish a national antislavery body to work directly for emancipation declared roundly , ‘ We have no wild schemes of emancipation … we rather wish the thing may work its own way by the force of faith and the operation of circumstances . ’
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