Example sentences of "was at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not unnatural , as in the 1970s and early 1980s Spencer was at the Queen 's University , Belfast , and an active member of the All Children Together Movement . |
| 2 | Sarah 's house was at the other end of it and I could see a couple of cars parked outside what I was sure was their home . |
| 3 | ‘ This was at the church just down the road from here ? ’ |
| 4 | Indeed when I was at the police college in 1987 and Jones was on the Senior Command Course prior to taking up a position as assistant chief constable , I took a straw poll among my immediate colleagues to see what influence such books achieve . |
| 5 | Almost a month went by before she allowed herself an evening to realise that there was at the very least and latest , an unfinished conversation between them . |
| 6 | And yet , none of them , who have so much in common with X , who have so much regard for their fellow man , was at the funeral this afternoon . |
| 7 | The second had a double bed but was at the back of the cottage and overlooked an overgrown vegetable patch . |
| 8 | The motion-work was at the very apogee of clockmaking technology and the case-work enjoyed a world wide reputation for quality of design and good taste , all at very competitive pricing . |
| 9 | The EIG was at the centre of CAMRA 's response to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 10 | National Chairman John Cryne was at the festival to give Jim Jordon , on the left in the picture , an engraved tankard . |
| 11 | Leavis was a major critic and a very influential educator , who was convinced both that criticism was essentially evaluative and that it was at the heart of English studies . |
| 12 | No one who was at the Brewery Field ( perhaps not even the selectors ) would give twopence for their ability to do so . |
| 13 | The last time he was at the Phoenix , in Simon Gray 's The Common Pursuit , John Sessions was lost in a soggy , unsympathetic part , while co-stars like Rik Mayall and Stephen Fry hogged all the limelight ; he seemed a non-entity . |
| 14 | The loans are fixed until April 1990 to get over what was at the beginning of the week ‘ the current period of uncertainty ’ and has now become a gloomy fact . |
| 15 | The rule also affected Henry Cotton , who took up the post at Royal Waterloo , Belgium , in 1933 and thus missed two Ryder Cup matches when he was at the peak of his powers . |
| 16 | He had a means of doing this since she was at the time in danger of being disbarred after allegations that she had defrauded a Catholic charity active in Africa . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I decided to stay where I was at the moment until things quietened down . |
| 19 | Last time we met was at the Training Centre at Achnacarry . |
| 20 | Twenty minutes later I was at the head of the queue . |
| 21 | Air Commodore Jeffery , President RAFA Eastern Area was at the Annual Dinner on 7 June to congratulate the branch on its achievements . |
| 22 | But the exit was at the foot of the screen , and I was being borne up towards that great and drooling hag , away from safety , pinioned by someone I could n't see , and the witch was laughing . |
| 23 | The lights were on in a second and the usherette was at the screamer 's side . |
| 24 | Twice I was at the cinema when it burned down . |
| 25 | I was at the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , as an assistant manager , and there were a hundred and twenty-two on the staff . |
| 26 | A significant contemporary manifestation of that belief , and a vivid instance of how ‘ modern ’ sexuality became a surrogate religion , somewhere for an essentially religious notion of integrity to survive in a mutated and displaced form , was at the prosecution for obscenity of D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley 's Lover ( 1960 ) . |
| 27 | By May 1989 inflation at over 8 per cent was at the same level as at the 1979 general election and unemployment , though falling , was higher than in 1979 . |
| 28 | Seventeen years before Maxse 's death , but if this seems odd it is understandable , for Maxse was at the height of his powers before 1914 and a negligible figure thereafter . |
| 29 | She knew , without any consolation , that she was at the mercy of everything which was most ancient and fearful . |
| 30 | By 1964 Healey was at the end of its development , but still loved |