Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two bunches of roses from the dead girl 's parents , were placed at the scene after the jury left . |
| 2 | Even more interesting was the fact that over 300 cars were parked at the Park and Ride facility at Harman 's Cross which obviously reduced the level of traffic along the road to Swanage by that amount . |
| 3 | They were caught at the sett after a member of the public spotted them on farmland , said Simon Caterall , prosecuting . |
| 4 | Having been brought up as patriots , they were benumbed at the thought that there was to be a conflict between their country and all the beliefs that they held dear . |
| 5 | Boundary layer ducts were incorporated at the radiator and fuselage junctions , and matt camouflage was superseded on the Mk IV by a gloss finish . |
| 6 | ‘ We were looking at the issue but there was no commitment from us , ’ said a senior British official . |
| 7 | However , a bright lady from one of the northern co-ops came up to me later with the simple answer : they were looking at the prices and making their choice on that basis in much the same manner as they might go into a butcher 's shop with a price tag for the weekend shopping firmly implanted in their minds . |
| 8 | I remember going upstairs while they were looking at the corpse and writing a note with trembling fingers . |
| 9 | You already understood the derivation in class , for you were looking at the blackboard and did not obscure your attention by scribbling down everything . |
| 10 | And I was in a ca , er school over the summer holidays and er , we were looking at the design and technology and the point was that they got ta design and make some components , and realise I 'm talking about , you know , six , seven , eight year old , mixed girls and boys theirselves , and it was ra rather heart-warming to see where the way these youngsters react . |
| 11 | A neat stone arch and a flight of steps were built at the entrance and these have survived . |
| 12 | In December , when 12 managers visited , they were collected at the airport and taken to Kilmarnock first of all , where Andrew Steel , Managing Director , conducted a tour of Douglas Reyburn 's yarn , spinning and dyeing operations . |
| 13 | Clinical , sigmoidoscopic , biopsy , haematological , and biochemical assessments were made at the beginning and end of the four week trial period or when patients were withdrawn prematurely . |
| 14 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 15 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 16 | They erm wa when we to we , we were staying at the Claremont and I do n't , oh , I think we just decided we 'd find a cup of coffee . |
| 17 | Completed test scripts were marked at the NFER and computerised data printouts of results for individual pupils fed back to the schools . |
| 18 | The scripts were marked at the NFER and the results fed back to the schools in the form of a computer printout . |
| 19 | A total of 478 students were arrested at the time and held for several days . |
| 20 | A number of men were arrested at the house but later released without charge . |
| 21 | About an hour later it arrived but we were standing at the bar when we had er ordered it . |
| 22 | Missiles — including an egg and a rock — were thrown at the vans and two people hammered on their sides . |
| 23 | Stones were thrown at the police and a number of shop windows were broken . |
| 24 | After a couple of hours , during which some sticks and other items were thrown at the police and insults were shouted , a mounted police line was drawn up behind the police cordon and a row of police vans . |
| 25 | Probably , during the war we did quite well , what with the black Americans because they were stationed at the towers and they used to give us kids chocolates and |
| 26 | In 1836 , the Bill now having been passed , he suggested to Gladstone that there ought to be more enfranchisement to cure the effects of it ; if the pyramid were extended at the base and the lower classes given some power , this would counter the preponderance of the manufacturers . |
| 27 | You may think they were tainted , but we know they were tested at the priory and I doubt the Lady Eleanor would have taken them solely on the Prince 's word . ’ |
| 28 | Its original preferred candidate was Ryzhkov , but fears were expressed at the meeting that if elected Ryzhkov would cede the post to Gorbachev , and it was therefore decided also to nominate Vadim Bakatin , the USSR Internal Affairs Minister . |
| 29 | His masked accomplice allegedly Walker , was also armed with a gun and shots , probably blank , were fired at the ceiling before they ran out empty-handed . |
| 30 | Her eyes were wild and did not seem to see him , her wings were smashing at the bars and branch in her cage , and she was over and up to the top . |