Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 2 | On the main highway leading to Charleroi and Brussels the Dragoons were clattering along at a fine pace , almost as if this was an exercise in Provence instead of war . |
| 3 | Plates were handed out at a commemorative dinner by Health Authority Chairman Maurice Proctor . |
| 4 | Worse followed when 10,000 coupons were handed out at a big match at Hull — but 9,999 vanished . |
| 5 | Less than 36 hours after the discovery of the body , facts were coming in at a fair rate , though it was still not possible to decide which were relevant and which not . |
| 6 | The road was deserted and we were throbbing along at a moderate pace when suddenly the engine sputtered and stopped . |
| 7 | The scheme was carried out by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ( AAA ) and the committees were set up at a local level with farmer representatives from the various areas of production , such as wheat , cotton , dairy produce , rice and tobacco . |
| 8 | The results were followed up at a second Latin American consultation which was held in São Leopoldo , Brazil , in July 1992 . |
| 9 | The sash windows were put in at a later date but the glazing bars still follow the lines of the mullions and transoms and look particularly well . |
| 10 | Cells were plated out at a maximum initial density of 510 cells per dish and incubated overnight to allow separation of adherent cells ( fibroblasts and macrophages ) from inflammatory cells . |
| 11 | For these , training was a regular event and in one case was carried out at a separate meeting every alternate month . |
| 12 | The commendation reads : ‘ A difficult rescue was carried out at a high degree of risk to the crew . |
| 13 | The base was picked up at a second-hand store , and the crimson cotton shade came from Habitat . |
| 14 | Chris was looking back at a colourful four-wheeled cart drawn by two tasselled horses . |
| 15 | Interest in recycling was stirred up at a free seminar organised by ICI 's plastics environmental affairs group . |
| 16 | The booby-trapped tin was handed over at a nearby checkpoint after the woman , dressed all in black , smiled and wished the soldiers a happy Christmas . |
| 17 | For the past five years members of the Durham Concert Secretaries Federation have held fund-raising events on behalf of the Wareham Wood Memorial Fund for cancer relief and the latest cheque was handed over at a special ceremony at Osborne Social Club , Chester-le-Street . |
| 18 | That grievous bodily harm thing was coming up at a special court this morning , but that ought to be all wrapped up in half an hour . |
| 19 | Eva was coming in at a high spot of the Army 's history . |
| 20 | Meanwhile behind him John Thorne was desperately trying to provide some company , for Spartan Missile was running on at a tremendous rate . |
| 21 | It was standing up at a crazy angle out of a mass of ferns . |
| 22 | ‘ The socialist order is in danger in Hungary because internal and external reactionary forces have launched a counter-offensive aimed at restoring capitalism , ’ warned the manifesto of the party 's ‘ Marxist Unity Platform ’ which was read out at a mass rally in a Budapest stadium . |