Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [vb pp] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ruotolo apparently submitted , but then published a pamphlet attacking current exegesis , especially as it was taught at the Biblicum . |
| 32 | It was situated at the bottom of York Street along with Edward , Vulcan and Howard Streets , York Street ran off Cleveland Street beside the main rail line . |
| 33 | Throughout the Middle Ages it was situated at the centre of a major marcher lordship , guarding one of the principal river crossings from southern England into Wales . |
| 34 | Mr Jones did n't have the key ; it was kept at the ambulance station , whose staff would be told to lend it for the purpose required . |
| 35 | It was decided at the Brdo kod Kranja meeting to hold by the end of May a separate referendum in each republic except Slovenia , which had already voted overwhelmingly for independence in a referendum in December 1990 [ see p. 37924 ] . |
| 36 | Because of the uncertainties , and to forestall the predicted developments , it was decided at the Committee stage of the Bill to redraft it to ensure that these were explicitly within the new law . |
| 37 | Now then you was put on Premeren it was given at the hospital , was n't it ? |
| 38 | It was given at the launching of what was Britain 's largest liner at the time , the S.S. Aquitania . |
| 39 | Conrad 's Heart of Darkness is the first English modernist novel , it was written at the break of the century , a time of great change and movement ( for example , electricity , airplanes , telephone were all invented , democracy and freud emerged . ) |
| 40 | Yeah but I , I think that 's the importance basically I mean reading through this it 's very easy to sort of in , in a way you know go , go to this point of view because it was written at the time , but I mean we , we still now that it was a very sort of say left wing point of view |
| 41 | ‘ We say that the letter was written by Paula Gilfoyle but it was written at the defendant 's request and dictation and no such person as Nigel existed . |
| 42 | on the faxes , just erm one item that came up really from yesterday which I 've already passed on to , to Sheila from the south cos it was raised at the south meeting but I think it 's relevant to everybody . |
| 43 | It was stated at the beginning of this chapter that the objective was not to provide a comprehensive guide to international selling and exporting . |
| 44 | It was hoped at the outset that the results of the workshop would produce an " idealised " narrative based on the majority preferences displayed in each of the 11 sentence columns . |
| 45 | my Lord if , if if it was , if that was based upon illegal business we would say it was invalid , if it was based at the end of the day upon business that we would of erm permitted to have been written then we would n't have no our defence to it |
| 46 | One Russian paper , described as ‘ highly conservative ’ , contained a piece , some of which , it was said at the time , was barely capable of being rendered into printable English . |
| 47 | It was said at the height of his fame that Bob was giving a living to ten Jamaicans . |
| 48 | It was pressed at the time when Red Rhino were having their well documented financial troubles . |
| 49 | It was noted at the beginning of this chapter that early European travellers brought back objects to represent the peoples of other lands and , through the arrangement of these objects in museums , contributed to the development of early theories of social evolution and diffusion ( Steadman 1979 ) . |
| 50 | It was noted at the start of the chapter that not least among the needs of the physically disabled was the need for understanding and true acceptance in society . |
| 51 | It was felt at the time that the upward movement was out of line with the underlying trend and the latest figures analysed by Reward suggest it has in fact been short-lived . |
| 52 | It was felt at the time that regional disparities would inhibit commitment by member states to such integration . |
| 53 | It was steamed at the weekend and made an impressive sight when it was double headed with the line 's own former NCB No 20 . |
| 54 | It was built at the time when local builders possessed that magic formula for rightness of scale . |
| 55 | Tintern Abbey was given the other important position — it was printed at the end of the volume . |
| 56 | That 's why it was abolished at the insistence of Labour Ministers who served in the coalition government during the war . |
| 57 | In view of the evident division of opinion among Ministers , it was suggested at the meeting of the Cabinet on 19th June that the best course would be to introduce the Criminal Justice Bill without any provision abolishing capital punishment and to explain in the Second Reading Debate that since the question of capital punishment was one on which there were differences of opinion transcending Party lines , the Government felt that the matter should be left to a free vote on the Report Stage of the Bill . |
| 58 | It was seamed at the back , and running his fingertips the length of the seam he encountered a small patch halfway down that was sticky and stiffening , and withdrew them smeared with drying blood . |
| 59 | The technique of flutter-tonguing , where the player rolls the tongue instead of precisely articulating individual notes , may be used for particular effect in quiet passages ; now quite commonly used , it was introduced at the beginning of this century by R. Strauss and Mahler . |
| 60 | I 'm phoning about little Emma erm I do n't know if you 've seen the Evening Mail today erm there 's a picture of Emma and her er young sister er Marianne , I presume it was taken at the school . |