Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you had get the two people who were at the back , you have to get them out before you landed because when you when you brought the flaps up if they were still in this little bay you would squash them to death and one day his dials showed that he had , in fact , squashed them to death ! |
| 2 | During the days I go and see my friends , most of the people who were at the hotel at the same time as I was have been moved up here . |
| 3 | I appreciate that this view is somewhat unfashionable and would gain little support from the majority of teachers who were at the centre of the disruptions of recent years . |
| 4 | ‘ Whilst Irvine , ’ he remarked , ‘ could have had his throat cut by any member of Queen Margaret 's household except for four ; you and I who were at the convent , and Catesby and Melford who were in Nottingham . |
| 5 | There are still one or two people we 've got to see who were at the Muddington dance , notably a lad called Barry Taylor who has some explaining to do . |
| 6 | I suppose that I was influenced by the exploits of the great test pilots of the day , people like Peter Twiss , Neville Duke and John Derry , who were at the time just coming to grips with high-speed flight and what was called the ‘ sound-barrier ’ . |
| 7 | The legal charge was executed by the Hammonds , who were at the time transferees under a transfer executed by Mrs. Steed as attorney for the registered proprietor . |
| 8 | Most casualties ( 46% ) recorded involved people who were at the time of the incident standing in buses , but it is not always clear from the recorded data whether the passengers were standing due to the vehicle 's seating capacity being fully utilised or were on their feet moving towards a seat or the bus exit . |
| 9 | Back for Swansea are Mark Titley , Scott Gibbs and Simon Davies , who were at the Hong Kong Sevens with the Barbarians last week and missed the Schweppes Cup tie against Dunvant . |
| 10 | With a political prisoner escaped , all of us who were at the City of the Horizon must come under increased scrutiny . ’ |
| 11 | The collections indicated a wider hidden culture of support for ‘ the lads ’ who were at the forefront of the battle to restore national unity , in addition to the much smaller party political support they enjoyed in the South . |
| 12 | But while they gave support and commitment , it was lesbians who were at the forefront of change when the Girls ' Work Movement came to life in the late seventies and early eighties . |
| 13 | Harmsworth was one of many — others include Marconi and the pioneers of the film industry — who were at the forefront of what Briggs has called ‘ the development of the mass entertainment industry ’ at the turn of the century . |
| 14 | On the contrary , it was the most urbanized workers , those with the highest levels of skill , education and wages who were at the forefront of labour protest . |
| 15 | It 's like , you know , a lot of people who were at the conference were completely unaware of all this because they were working so hard . |
| 16 | Best who was at a Lions selection meeting in Edinburgh yesterday morning , reckoned the margin and manner of Scotland 's 20-0 victory would certainly have England worried and that he expected a cracker of a game on Saturday week at Twickenham , where Scotland have won only twice , in 1971 and 1983 , since the Second World War . |
| 17 | They both watched Mallachy , who was at the sailboards . |
| 18 | Diana , who was at the Cenotaph ceremony in London , has refused to go with her husband to a charity pop concert on Monday to watch one of her favourite stars , Phil Collins . |
| 19 | Sally Taylor and her sister Mary who was at the birth told the coroner they throught obstetrician Mr Euan Laird was straining … |
| 20 | When we were all seated in our kitchen Frankie wanted to know who was at the graveyard and what had happened . |
| 21 | Other members of the committee are Sir Campbell Adamson , Mr. Charles Bracken , Mrs. Gillian Waddington , and Sir Ralph Halpern , who was at the ball accompanied by his pretty daughter Miss Jennifer Halpern . |
| 22 | James Cropper who was at the centre of the efforts to establish a national antislavery body to work directly for emancipation declared roundly , ‘ We have no wild schemes of emancipation … we rather wish the thing may work its own way by the force of faith and the operation of circumstances . ’ |
| 23 | There were the agronomist nephew and his wife who was already a schoolmarm , two younger brothers , one having finished his philo , the other his service militaire , a niece who was at the Sorbonne and her fiancé reading economics at the university of Rennes . |
| 24 | Cranston asked , winking good-humouredly at the maid who had also hurried down to see who was at the door . |
| 25 | He spoke briefly , listened briefly , then turned to McKenzie who was at the tiller . |
| 26 | Under the mop of curls his face , without the emphasizing make-up he wore perpetually on the train , looked younger and more ordinary : it was David Flynn who was at the races , not Zak . |
| 27 | As their investigation progressed , so did their conviction that it was the President himself who was at the heart of the deception . |
| 28 | Also receiving OBEs were ITN cameraman Nigel Thomson , twice wounded while working last year , who was at the investiture with his wife ITN newsreader Carol Barnes , and former England cricket manager Micky Stewart . |
| 29 | No one who was at the Brewery Field ( perhaps not even the selectors ) would give twopence for their ability to do so . |
| 30 | Sophie went to fetch the family doctor , who was at the theatre . |