Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] them at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various local councillors and moral guardians were waiting for them at the venue , having read local press reports that the Fabs ' travelling show included a rather racy striptease revue . |
| 2 | Oliver and Tim were waiting for them at the gangway . |
| 3 | Or rather , their memoirs were launched for them at a glib and glitzy party by Heinemann , the publishers . |
| 4 | Ankhu and Nebamun would have it easier , but for the majority of privileged men work was a nominal activity as they laboured more or less intelligently in the upper ranks of the army , the civil service and the priesthood ; most of the graft was done for them at a humbler level . |
| 5 | The Bristol Mail was heading towards them at the piteously slow speed of a horse and cart , urged forward by a sleep-weary teenage post-boy . |
| 6 | The gardener was waiting for them at the front door . |
| 7 | For an hour the guests sat patiently listening ; then everybody got up and , with the air of people who have been thinking of little else for some time , demolished the langoor ( free food ) which was waiting for them at the rear of the house . |
| 8 | To Sophie 's and Helen 's surprise , Ian Woodall , looking anxious and drawn , was waiting for them at the hospital . |
| 9 | The famous Tiller discretion was instilled into them at the same time as their routines and with equal thoroughness . |
| 10 | The result , in the aftermath of the Japanese coup , was that immediate help to the French , who were now fighting the Japanese in Vietnam , was denied to them at a time when the US 14th Airforce in southern China could be seen by the French in Laos and Vietnam as they flew on their predetermined attacks on the Japanese elsewhere in Southeast Asia . |