Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alterations to the National Executive report , Socialism and the Condition of the People which he advocated were finally left to the Executive to consider , and were moved again at the Southport Conference of 1934 . |
| 2 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 3 | She turned to find that the Doctor , Francis and Elaine had followed her , and were staring glumly at the fourfold choice of paths . |
| 4 | So , for many years , the couple made their living as hired help , and were doing so at the time of the film 's success . |
| 5 | David Paul McKnight ( 27 ) , of Juniper Park was said by his solicitor at Craigavon Crown Court to be ‘ a virtual alcoholic ’ and was drinking heavily at the time of the offences on January 4 . |
| 6 | Putting the ‘ corpse ’ down , she gave up and was gazing sadly at the small body when , about two minutes after its ‘ death ’ , it suddenly took a few very deep breaths and started to move about . |
| 7 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
| 8 | The organization was run by an executive council who were responsible to a grand council , and was administered locally at the county level . |
| 9 | The stone disimpacted in eight of these patients after seven to 10 days decompression and was removed successfully at the second stage , whereas five of six patients with persistent stone impaction required more than one session for stone clearance . |
| 10 | In the second-round run-off presidential election held on May 8 , 1988 , Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the centre-left Democratic Left ( Izquierda Democrática — ID ) polled 46 per cent of the vote and was sworn in at the head of a new government on Aug. 10 [ see p. 36343 ] . |
| 11 | He took a taxi the twelve miles into Brighton , and was dropped off at the Willett Collection , housed in the town 's museum . |
| 12 | Cranston had placed the wine cup and jug beside the bed , collapsed on to the mattress and was smiling beatifically at the ceiling , fast asleep . |
| 13 | Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute . |
| 14 | I had never taught before but was pushed in at the deep end and had to learn to swim . |
| 15 | He came back from a serious back injury last season , but was injured again at the weekend . |