Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Cleo cast a dubious glance at the dogs who were all looking up at Lorimer with smiling , gaping mouths and wagging tails . |
2 | He looked round at the other rabbits , who were all staring either at Bigwig or at himself . |
3 | Victory when it came I found tasteless , I was ashamed to be envious of air crews who were able to turn up at reunions with a crew intact , and they still can even 40 years on , and relive those cruel yet wondrous days when the composition of a crew was as binding as the sanctity of marriage . |
4 | Immunoprecipitation with mABs was carried out as described by Sonnenberg et al with the modification : cell extracts were first incubated overnight at 4°C with 10 µl of the specific antibody and 10 µl of a species specific polyclonal rabbit lgG ( Dako , Hamburg , Germany ) antibody and then for an incubation period of one hour with 9 mg protein A sepharose at 4°C . |
5 | People were entitled to walk alone at night . |
6 | Montenegro and Bulgaria were aggrieved to obtain less at Berlin than they had won earlier by fighting . |
7 | The concert by Prince was due to go ahead at Blenheim Palace last August . |
8 | As far as we know there were only two places where he was likely to feel sufficiently at home to take his jacket off — in his own house and at Laura Passmore 's . ’ |
9 | However , because I believed that much of this increased protein synthesis was likely to be associated with the production of new synapses , or the modification of old ones , it was important to look not at proteins in general but at synaptic membrane proteins in particular . |
10 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
11 | From the 1760s onwards both the British and French armies made intermittent and rather unsuccessful experiments with explosive shells , while shrapnel was first demonstrated publicly at Gibraltar in 1787 . |