Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book has explained that , having been a murderer of unreliables for the Republicans , he was shot at by a rival and went straight back to Glasgow . ) |
| 2 | On the morning of the Melbourne Stakes , which was to be Phar Lap 's warm-up race for the Melbourne Cup three days later , he was shot at from the window of a car as he returned from exercise . |
| 3 | Yesterday it was revealed that PC Hall escaped death by a whisker when he was shot at point-blank range . |
| 4 | Standing at this window of his college he was shot at from Madgalen Bridge |
| 5 | Eustace himself offered huge sums for his life but , hated as he was by the men of the Cinque Ports , he was beheaded at once by an old enemy , Stephen of Winchelsea , an incident depicted in a graphic drawing by Matthew Paris [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | Like Dom Pérignon , Brother Oudart was interested in perfecting the art of winemaking and we know , from a record of a transaction which took place at Pierry on 9 September 1713 , that he was visited at least once by the older cellarmaster from Hautvillers . |
| 7 | But he was checked at Trou . |
| 8 | In January 1985 , before he was supplanted at the top by Lendl , the New Yorker defeated the stern Czechoslovak in straight sets in the Masters final . |
| 9 | The following Tuesday he was contacted at work to say that the jump was on for that afternoon . |
| 10 | EXACTLY a fortnight after his unscheduled South Bank recital debut , when he was invited at the last minute to take over from the indisposed Krystian Zimerman , the young Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner was back at the Festival Hall to replace the temperamental Martha Argerich in a Mozart concerto with the Philharmonia and conductor Claus Peter Flor . |
| 11 | A Peruvian man with drug-resistant tuberculosis was advised to come to Britain for treatment , but warned not to bring any medication in case he was stopped at immigration . |
| 12 | He was represented at the hearing of his Appeal by the Association and the Tribunal increased the assessment to 80% . |
| 13 | ‘ It is clear that the bank were involved in the various activities of McLaughlin , who seems to have introduced to the bank the various people involved , as well as effecting the introduction of the husband to Dempsey and others with whom he was involved at a later stage . |
| 14 | In 1030 he was killed at the battle of Stiklestad ( near Trondheim ) by his own people , and Cnut then put his consort Ælfgifu of Northampton and their son Swegen in charge there . |
| 15 | In 524 he attacked Godomar , in alliance with the Ostrogoths , but he was killed at Vézeronce . |
| 16 | He was killed at Shoreham in an experimental microlite machine . |
| 17 | Instead , he was troubled at the start by a cold which has been with him since last week . |
| 18 | Lord Brightman said that ‘ great restraint ’ should be exercised in giving leave to proceed by judicial review , and that he was troubled at ‘ the prolific use ’ of the procedure in these cases . |
| 19 | He was treated at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and later released . |
| 20 | Only three weeks ago Clough launched a scathing attack on the way he was treated at the European championship finals in Sweden this summer and voiced his disapproval at manager Taylor 's long-ball style . |
| 21 | PHIL Thompson is still bitter at the way he was treated at Anfield . |
| 22 | He was treated at Leighton Hospital , in Crewe . |
| 23 | Scott , of Holt Street , Hartlepool , was the youngest person to have the implant when he was treated at the NRI last October . |
| 24 | He was treated at Darlington Memorial but was said to be not badly hurt . |
| 25 | He was joined at the door by his wife and daughter . |
| 26 | Paul , 21 , broke down in tears when he was asked at the Old Bailey if he intended to kill or seriously injure Oxford graduate John Lavender . |
| 27 | He was asked at the Dec. 30 meeting to continue for the two months while new structures were elaborated . |
| 28 | He was met at the airport . |
| 29 | He was convicted at Portland , Oregon . |
| 30 | At the outset he was given at most a one-in-10 chance of survival . |