Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 4 | Trippy was meeting somebody at a club down at Camden Lock but he could n't remember who or exactly where . |
| 5 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 8 | I would n't get the opportunity to find out who else was calling me at the same time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The official story is that he was playing it at a party and people wanted to hear it over and over . |
| 14 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 15 | It 's bigger than British Telecom which , at its profitable peak , was coining it at the rate of £90 a second . |
| 16 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 17 | My fortune was denied you at the last , and that was the spur . |
| 18 | At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |