Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pron] was at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is generally supposed that it was at Thurgarton . |
| 2 | I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley . |
| 3 | If you rule this second topic out of order , and the examiner wished it to be included , the examiner will at least see that you have had the point present in your mind , and will probably-also be brought to see that he was at fault in his wording of the question . |
| 4 | At the time of the fire , British Nuclear Fuels Ltd , which runs Windscale , used its own estimates of the doses of iodine-131 , the most dangerous radio-isotope released during the fire , on individuals to claim that nobody was at risk . |
| 5 | Similarly , when they exchanged the names of their schools , she found herself immensely relieved when he declared that he was at Winchester , for she had heard of Winchester , she knew something about Winchester , she did not have to feign a non-existent knowledge of Winchester . |
| 6 | No application was made for bail after the court heard that he was at risk to himself and others due to the nature of the crime . |
| 7 | This is a split that can rarely have been witnessed in Glasgow — which does not indicate that he was at fault in consulting his analyst , but does indicate that these autobiographies are sited in very different places . |
| 8 | He had three functions in which he knew that he was at home . |
| 9 | Naturally nobody would have made this distinction at the time and certainly Julian and all her friends thought that she was at death 's door . |
| 10 | The old woman stared at him and her eyes were bright and piercing and the silver thimble had fallen to the lap of her dress , and her fists were clenched now as if she searched for a memory , and her husband watched her anxiously as if he witnessed that she was at war within herself . |