Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numerous prizes , generously donated by sponsors , were given out at the end of the day . |
| 2 | Details of these were given out at the April training day and included in that days ' notes . |
| 3 | I was pretty odd for Blackheath but not in comparison with the people who were hanging out at the It office . |
| 4 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 5 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
| 6 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 7 | Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years . |
| 8 | In medieval times well-documented court activities were carried out at the caputs already discussed . |
| 9 | The controls were voted in at the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ( CCMLR ) . |
| 10 | The move followed stone-throwing by dozens of people after two youths disputed the fare when they were dropped off at a pub . |
| 11 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 12 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 13 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 14 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 15 | Greece , Spain , Portugal and Ireland were won over at a meeting of Environment Ministers by promises that the tax will be levied only on energy use or carbon dioxide emissions above a threshold value linked to the community average . |
| 16 | Everything seemed to be settled when Taiwanese and Indonesian officials agreed that the animals would be sent to the orang-utan rehabilitation centre run by Dr Galdikas at Tanjung Puting in Kalimantan ; and in November 1990 , they were seen off at the airport by BBC cameras , reporters from around the world and a hundred singing Taiwanese children . |
| 17 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
| 18 | All three men were looking up at a newly stained wallaba beam which supported the terrace room . |
| 19 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 20 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 21 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 22 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 23 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
| 24 | But new barriers were built up at every step , so he continued to seek an opportunity to resign , if this could be done without disobedience to the will of God . |
| 25 | Our pens were collected up at the end of each session , so we never got the same pen twice , resulting in the nibs being frequently crossed . |
| 26 | The London theatres , which had for so long been a particular thorn in the side of Puritan moralists such as William Prynne , were closed down at the outbreak of the civil war and remained shut until the Restoration . |
| 27 | Whole villages were wiped out at a stroke , towns were abandoned , and in the chief provincial cities nearly three quarters of the people were taken by disease . |
| 28 | At the time a lot of people felt we were selling out at the bottom , but I have n't heard that accusation recently . ’ |
| 29 | On the main highway leading to Charleroi and Brussels the Dragoons were clattering along at a fine pace , almost as if this was an exercise in Provence instead of war . |
| 30 | Quite a number of them were turning up at the BBC and the harassed receptionist was heard to say , as she reported the arrival of yet another , ‘ I 'm sorry , where did you say you were king of ? ’ |