Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other thing is with the competency f if you w if you were looking at a competency chart with a certain member of staff , and identifying that they were incompetent |
| 2 | Trying to pull us both up short she started on a lecture on the foetal damage caused by nicotine , but neither of us was listening ; we were looking at a memory . |
| 3 | We were looking at a plant which was a little like cow parsley but smaller , its leaves more feathery . |
| 4 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 5 | The journey went on and on — before long we were travelling at a walking pace , and I and the few other passengers were anxiously clearing the condensation from the windows and peering into the murk in an effort to see where we were . |
| 6 | They were part of a group of students returning from Stratford to London where they were registered at a college on Picadilly . |
| 7 | They were stopped at a sentry post to have passes checked and moved on through the wool of the fog , traffic sounds muted , an anguished cry from the Thames as a ship sounded its foghorn on the way down to the sea . |
| 8 | The Commission regarded this difference of treatment as deterring companies registered in other member states from setting up agencies and branches , since they were placed at a disadvantage vis-à-vis French companies . |
| 9 | They found that when women spent time out of paid work bringing up their children they were placed at a disadvantage on the labour market . |
| 10 | In no time they were installed at a table by the window and being attended by a stately woman with an enormous bosom and a monument of granite-coloured hair . |
| 11 | They were produced at a time when lay people were being targeted for instruction in ways which further fostered their consciousness as individuals with self-defining choices to be made by the programme for revitalising the mission of the Church instituted by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215 . |
| 12 | The two of them were sitting at a table in the open air . |
| 13 | Such changes occurred most commonly when women were initially booked to deliver at general practitioner hospitals : 40% of them were delivered at a consultant unit . |
| 14 | Six of us were sitting at a table . |