Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my hon. Friend agree that we should also pay tribute to Friends of the Earth which , when I was a Minister at the Department of Transport , suggested that it would be sensible for the Minister with responsibility for roads to go to the Netherlands with some civil servants to see how traffic calming works there . |
| 2 | I was a pupil at the school from 1920 to 1924 . |
| 3 | She was a child at the time . |
| 4 | She was a schoolteacher at the village school and has written a book about Scorton called , I think , ‘ Straws in the Wind ’ . |
| 5 | She was a patient at the Ashbury Lodge nursing home in Swindon in February . |
| 6 | She was a patient at the Ashbury Lodge nursing home in Swindon in February . |
| 7 | In 1969 she was a guest at the wedding of her cousin , Elizabeth Wake-Walker and Anthony Duckworth-Chad held at St James 's Piccadilly . |
| 8 | It would have been a little more civilised if he had pointed out that she was a guest at the hacienda , instead of sitting here with that look on his face . |
| 9 | As far as her friends were concerned , she was a translator at the United Nations . |
| 10 | The other four nights she stayed at home , studying , since she was a student at the same Polytechnic that was educating Sarah Fleming and Sergeant Jones 's son , but she knew neither of them as she was a year older and taking different subjects . |
| 11 | ‘ So she was a prostitute at the age of nine ? ’ |
| 12 | It was a lady at the other end . |
| 13 | it was a yard at the back , but , I climbed out and stood on the sides |
| 14 | it was a contact at the fuse on the tab . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought it was a woman at the time . |
| 16 | He was a cadet at the Imperial Military Academy in Moscow when he heard that the emperor , Tsar Nicholas 11 , was under house arrest . |
| 17 | He knows the Getty well as he was a scholar at the Center in 1988–89 , when his predecessor , Kurt Forster , who has left to be Professor of Art and Architectural history at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich , was en poste . |
| 18 | And she married er a man named , Mr , I c do n't know his christian name , and he was a warder at the Leicester prison . |
| 19 | He was a suspect at the time , but it took a scientific breakthrough ten years later , to convict him — a DNA profile test which was pioneered by Cellmark Diagnostics in Abingdon in Oxfordshire : |
| 20 | In 1899 he was a guest at the Wesleyan Methodist Conference and caused the normally sombre gathering to explode in laughter : the speaker before him had referred to himself as ‘ a humble Presbyterian ’ . |
| 21 | A careful user and comparer of sources , he often draws attention to discrepancies between them , and sometimes criticises their reliability , noting , for example , that Cædwalla of Wessex 's confirmation of a Glastonbury grant was signed with a cross although he was a pagan at the time . |
| 22 | ‘ He was a student at the university : they were to be married until she decided a career on the stage suited her better than becoming the wife of a Hapsburg cavalry officer . |
| 23 | He was a student at the teacher 's training college where my mother , in her thirty-sixth year , took a job as a lecturer . |
| 24 | And he was a student at the time and he had n't got a lot of money and he took what was it she said ? |