Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They toured with another Leeds ' band , Age Of Chance , who were breaking at a faster pace than themselves . |
| 2 | Reanalysis of data published in the childhood supplement of the registrar general 's decennial supplement on occupational mortality in England and Wales , which compares numerator data for registrations of deaths in children over the age of 1 but below their 16th birthday in 1979 , 1980 , 1982 , and 1983 with data about children aged 1–15 who were enumerated at the 1981 census . |
| 3 | Israeli police have shot dead twenty one Arabs in Jerusalem , and injured one hundred others who were protesting at a planned march by hard line Jews . |
| 4 | Those parish councils who were represented at the annual parish councils conference at Hall last year will recall that the suggestion was made that a special session may be held on planning topics should there be sufficient support from parish councils . |
| 5 | For example , adjustment increased the low perinatal mortality rate for women who were delivered at a general practitioner unit and decreased the high rate in hospital 1 , which had an accident and emergency department . |
| 6 | Having finished her spot , the soprano left the stage and rejoined her husband and the Concert Secretary who were sitting at the next table . |
| 7 | Already he has had offers from league and , although he has no interest in switching codes at the moment , the history of the game is littered with examples of guys who were caught at a low ebb by rugby league scouts and consequently signed . |
| 8 | He had been asked to serve not only by the four remaining directors , but also by the three directors who were unseated at an extraordinary general meeting last week . |
| 9 | Opened by another Mr Perkins who was staying at the same hotel , the package was passed to police who were ready and waiting for the actor when he arrived at the hotel in Cardiff . |
| 10 | The most obvious sign of the Diana 's new life was the sight of her Scotland Yard bodyguard who was seated at a nearby table . |
| 11 | There is an entrance to Frampton Court in the long wall along Rosamund 's Green ( so called after Fair Rosamund Clifford , who was born at the half-timbered farm across the green and whose co-lateral descendants still live at the court ) . |
| 12 | The next hour was taken up with rearranging assistant and duty managers ' rotas and trying without success to locate Stephen , who was looking at a remote beach-front site miles from English Harbour , where the estate agents were located . |
| 13 | In 1946 in Milan , Werner met a young woman who was looking at the same things as he was . |
| 14 | Masklin looked at the tall , thin , old nome who was scowling at the three of them . |
| 15 | The shot slipped from his grasp and nearly flattened the Head 's wife who was standing at a safe distance ( or so she thought ) behind the thrower . |
| 16 | When they reached their table , Clarissa carefully failed to notice who was sitting at the next one . |
| 17 | Avice de Columbars , for example , was amerced in 300 marks at the 1244 Hampshire Forest Eyre : her Forest duties were probably performed by her steward , who was adjudged at the same time to pay 100 marks . |
| 18 | They radioed that , at the Bunbeg bus turn-about and taxi stand on the Glen Road , they had seen a man with a revolver accompanied by two other men , one of whom was looking at the nearby mountain through binoculars . |