Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] was at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bank manager waited until Bissett was at the door , until he was sure of his safety . |
| 2 | Rab rolled a smoke while Winnie was at the bar . |
| 3 | While Billy was at the bar ordering another round , Yanto told the girls about the motorbike and explained that it was their first outing on the machine . |
| 4 | For Christopherson it was an ‘ exciting time , especially for engineers ’ , since engineering was at the time underrepresented and low priority in the universities . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Noel Koch was the deputy assistant for international security affairs at the Defense Department when North was at the NSC ; he had been given a code-name , and it was ‘ Aaron ’ . |
| 7 | When Daniel was at the station she remembered that the lamp had flickered alarmingly . |
| 8 | After his death , his wife told of an occasion , when Higgins was at the height of his medical practice , and when a young woman was ‘ seized with such a violent haemorrhage that the only expedient was transfusion ’ . |
| 9 | He was born when Brigitte was at the top , living as a spoilt star with actor-husband Jacques Charrier . |
| 10 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |
| 11 | Seventeen years before Maxse 's death , but if this seems odd it is understandable , for Maxse was at the height of his powers before 1914 and a negligible figure thereafter . |
| 12 | Perhaps even that future may be judged providential , but in such a story Vatican II will appear as the final occasion when Christianity was at the centre of significance for human and religious history , and John Paul II will be judged not the healer of a divided Church , but the gravedigger of Pope John 's aggiornamento . |