Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 . |
| 2 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 3 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
| 4 | Many of the instrumental numbers were so relaxed , they looked like they were amusing themselves at a family party and when Harry told everyone to stand up as he bopped around the stage in his black silk suit , everyone did as they were told . |
| 5 | We were to meet him at the airport , and when we were making all the arrangements with him on the phone , he said , ‘ Are you sure you 'll be able to recognize me ? ’ |
| 6 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 7 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 8 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 9 | So erm I do n't whether or not I s I still do n't think they were ultimately revolutionary , I think they were just erm people who they think were exploiting them at the time sort of erm you know in a certain situation |
| 10 | Consequently , Nos. 1–16 were removed one at a time to Sutton depôt , where the track brake gear was removed and fitted to 36–43 , which took their place at Penge depôt . |
| 11 | By the end of the tour kids were throwing themselves at the stage like little ‘ kamikazis ’ . |
| 12 | We were following them at a good clip . |
| 13 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 14 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 15 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 16 | Trippy was meeting somebody at a club down at Camden Lock but he could n't remember who or exactly where . |
| 17 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 18 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 19 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 20 | I would n't get the opportunity to find out who else was calling me at the same time . |
| 21 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 22 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 24 | we 're used to a lot of Shakespeare 's archaisms because he was studying them at A level and Shakespeare 's got so a special sort of band of them that he uses . |
| 25 | The official story is that he was playing it at a party and people wanted to hear it over and over . |
| 26 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 27 | It 's bigger than British Telecom which , at its profitable peak , was coining it at the rate of £90 a second . |
| 28 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 29 | My fortune was denied you at the last , and that was the spur . |
| 30 | At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 . |