Example sentences of "who was at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one who was at the Brewery Field ( perhaps not even the selectors ) would give twopence for their ability to do so . |
| 2 | A former editor of Izvestia , who was at the Central Committee plenum of 1964 which ‘ accepted ’ the resignation of his father-in-law on the grounds of age and health , Mr Adzhubey is perfectly placed to recall the ‘ stifling atmosphere ’ in the Politburo court at the time . |
| 3 | The celebrated preacher , Edward Irving ( 1792–1834 ) , who was at the height of his powers and still at peace with the Church of Scotland , had returned from London one Sabbath evening to preach once more to his own people . |
| 4 | In 1840 Thomas Wilkins , who was at the time running a successful baking business , took over the mill in the centre of Bourton then known as Lower Valley Water Mills . |
| 5 | Marcus again smiled what Ludens saw as a mysterious complicit smile , as if Ludens were a talented tempter who was at the same time a fellow initiate . |
| 6 | Käthe Fischel , who was at the David Eder Farm in Kent throughout the harsh winter of 1939 , remembers : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Arthur Browning , the son of Stamford architect Edward Browning , who was at the school in the 1870's , reports that ‘ The initiation of the new boys kissing the face of the ‘ Old Man' ’ , which forms the keystone of the church door , was seldom practised ’ and J. H. Boam of the same period recalled that the ceremony was only undertaken if a pupil had done anything to dishonour the school . |
| 9 | Princess Anne , who was at the helm of the boat she chose with his help , gazed back and told him simply : ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Nearn , who was at the time sole concessionaire for the Seven , supplied the car used in the series . |
| 11 | A police officer who was at the scene of the crash said , ‘ Mrs Gallagher was travelling on her own side when struck by a vehicle coming from the opposite direction on her side of the road . ’ |
| 12 | When we were all seated in our kitchen Frankie wanted to know who was at the graveyard and what had happened . |
| 13 | Maxie went on : ‘ Y ’ see , everyone who was at the tea will keep reading the social pages for the next day or two to see that their names are in the report of it ; and , with luck , inside that time , on the same pages there 'll be a report about your Morals Committee — then they 'll know why you had the books , and old Miss Angus will be put in her place . |
| 14 | ‘ She suddenly became ill and we took her home , ’ said her flatmate Lee Kelly , 24 , who was at the party . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Sophie went to fetch the family doctor , who was at the theatre . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The salesman , of Marston Green , who was at the hearing with girlfriend Sylvia Southall , claims unfair dismissal . |
| 19 | Edward , who was at the helm , was given no room to turn and ploughed onto the rocks just five minutes after the start of a three-hour race . |
| 20 | He spoke briefly , listened briefly , then turned to McKenzie who was at the tiller . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Indeed , Lord Plowden ( who was at the time a civil servant engaged in economic planning and subsequently the chairman of a public corporation ) has recently suggested that the blueprint laid down in the Act was arguably too detailed , and that questions such as the division of powers between the centre and Area Boards could rationally be placed within the purview of nationalised industry management rather than of Parliament . |
| 23 | As their investigation progressed , so did their conviction that it was the President himself who was at the heart of the deception . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | , Peter ( 1850–1918 ) , locomotive engineer , was born 13 August 1850 in Polmont , Stirlingshire , the son of George Drummond , who was at the time a permanent-way inspector on that section of the North British Railway , and his wife Christina Thomson . |
| 27 | He was a straightforward patriot , and , most of all , a man of action , who was at the same time a man of natural sensitivity towards suffering . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't see why not , ’ said Tilney , who was at the age when the more outrageous the idea , the better . |
| 29 | ‘ We are trying to trace everyone who was at the party to try to piece together the last hours of his life . ’ |
| 30 | The death threats had been provoked by Motoshima 's suggestion in December 1988 that Emperor Hirohito ( who was at the time dying of cancer ) bore some responsibility , " as do all of us who lived in that period " , for Japan 's role in the Pacific War of 1941-45 . |