Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [vb pp] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I write to confirm that on 5 October 1989 you were represented at the hearing to oppose the plaintiff being granted an injunction preventing you from selling the property . |
| 2 | If you were separated at the time , you are still treated as a dependant . |
| 3 | You were employed at the Child Poverty Action Group on the basis of a generous grant from the Noel Buxton Trust and the City Parochial Foundation . |
| 4 | You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling . |
| 5 | I take it you were captured at the fall of Singapore . ’ |
| 6 | Or , if you could n't think of anything else , you just wore something blue because that was the colour you went when you were buried at the bottom of the ocean . |
| 7 | Do you remember what you were paid at the outbreak of the war ? |
| 8 | ‘ We were engaged at the fishing , signore . |
| 9 | We were engaged at the time on a pre-disturbance survey of HMS Hazardous , a man-of-war which sank in November 1706 . |
| 10 | They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools . |
| 11 | We were separated at the time — the woman in the photographs is Phoebe . |
| 12 | And that 's all anybody got was section six , this dreaded section six which we were taught at the end of the year ! |
| 13 | We were joined at the Rivermead post by a jolly girl from Chelsea called ‘ George . ’ |
| 14 | We were greeted at the hotel with several messages from the airport . |
| 15 | Her description of my flat is one that I had difficulty in recognising : ‘ We were greeted at the door by Arnold 's housekeeper , Miss Roberts . |
| 16 | It was partly because these artificial agglomerations soon broke up that we were left at the finish with a lot of little scraps , which nobody , when not talking through the back of his head , could mistake for potential nations . |
| 17 | Quite why we were undressed at the time is a mystery , though I do recall your mother being uncharacteristically excitable and an unseemly display of mirth by the ambulance men . |
| 18 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 19 | But spending that hundred thousand pounds as we were told at the time , would only part solve the problem . |
| 20 | We were woken at the crack of dawn by the pitter patter of seagulls as they pecked for their breakfast . |
| 21 | They were seated at the breakfast bar in the kitchen , and she pointed to a row of cereal boxes at the far side of the room . |
| 22 | In December , when 12 managers visited , they were collected at the airport and taken to Kilmarnock first of all , where Andrew Steel , Managing Director , conducted a tour of Douglas Reyburn 's yarn , spinning and dyeing operations . |
| 23 | What was interesting about the projects was that they were asked at the outset to establish their local objectives , and set criteria for success for themselves . |
| 24 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 25 | Menem delivered a speech over the remains before they were interred at the Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires where Eva Perón was also buried . |
| 26 | In the United States , the Library of Congress has been classifying and cataloguing audio-visual materials for many years , so long as they were deposited at the Library for copyright purposes . |
| 27 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 28 | First up , they were stopped at the US border for the customary van search and their local driver was found to be in possession of a dozen or so ready-rolled ‘ recreational ’ cigarettes . |
| 29 | The difference is hard to explain as there was no difference between the two groups in terms of whether or not they were employed at the time they enquired about the courses . |
| 30 | The idea that there is some correct and timeless view , against which historical controversies can be judged , can prove an insensitive guide to the issues as they were perceived at the time . |