Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were treated at the Royal Liverpool Hospital for minor injuries . |
| 2 | A total of 24 proposed revisions to the draft Basic Law were approved at the final BLDC plenum . |
| 3 | A couple of punks on the far side , also waiting to cross , were pointing at the oblivious Slater and laughing . |
| 4 | Their reservations were voiced at the long-running Sizewell public inquiry , where the Suffolk local authorities have just finished their evidence . |
| 5 | He was treated at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and later released . |
| 6 | Coming to London as a young clerk attached to the Board of Trade , it was not long before he began to take an interest in political affairs , and his remarkable gift for public speaking was developed at the old Battersea Parliament , to which belonged many men who have since played important roles in public life … including Stanley ( now Lord ) Buckmaster , John Burns and Horatio Bottomley … . |
| 7 | But my real ambition was to appear at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , which I did eventually . ’ |
| 8 | A microphone was installed at the nearby Capitol Theater to provide high-fidelity subject matter , and the resulting waxes were sent to the Pathé factory in Brooklyn to be made into ordinary pressings . |
| 9 | He was educated at the Royal Belfast Institution and then at Queen 's University , Belfast , studying science in his first year then switching to philosophy . |
| 10 | Born in February 1924 , he was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and the University of London , where he studied law . |
| 11 | The raid was targeted at the top-secret RAF radar research station at Bawdsey Manor , two miles away along the pebble strand . |
| 12 | Schizophrenic Clive Wells was appearing at the Old Bailey accused of killing a 63-year-old man when he gave specialist nurses the slip . |
| 13 | As was seen at the recent September Gala the old gentleman is feeling his age and his appearance on the Sunday was only possible after herculean efforts on the part of the staff who had to work on a hot locomotive , in the most trying conditions , to ensure an appearance at the Gala Weekend . |
| 14 | A man who held staff at a medical centre hostage after his wife 's death was freed at the Old Bailey yesterday in an ‘ act of mercy ’ . |
| 15 | VANDAL Andrew Christie , who saw his pal kill a man with a baseball bat , was freed at the Old Bailey yesterday . |
| 16 | The new baby , weighing 7lbs 30z , was born at the private Wellington Humana hospital , in north-west London , shortly after 8pm yesterday . |
| 17 | THE Restoration and maintenance of the village green and its stream had been a major project for the year , it was noted at the Old Alresford Parish Council 's recent annual general meeting in the Christy Hall . |
| 18 | Leslie Thomas , a leader of a gang that organised acid house parties in London , was jailed at the Old Bailey yesterday for five years and three months after being convicted in his absence of plotting to permit premises to be used for the supply of drugs . |
| 19 | At the end of 1992 the company installed the first 1,000-number exchange in Ekaterinburg , which was assembled at the local Ural Electromechanical plant . |