Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 5 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | By the end of the tour kids were throwing themselves at the stage like little ‘ kamikazis ’ . |
| 8 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 13 | I would n't get the opportunity to find out who else was calling me at the same time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 16 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 17 | It 's bigger than British Telecom which , at its profitable peak , was coining it at the rate of £90 a second . |
| 18 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 19 | My fortune was denied you at the last , and that was the spur . |
| 20 | At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 . |
| 21 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 22 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |