Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nellie was sitting at the bedside . |
| 2 | Nellie was chuckling at the story . |
| 3 | Six weeks later Falconer was discovered at the base of the tower . ’ |
| 4 | On Tuesday morning , Falconer was found at the base of the tower , his neck broke , his head shattered . ’ |
| 5 | However , after the NL was disbanded at the outbreak of war , ex-members of this organization were to join the move towards a closer collaboration of anti-semitic , pro-nazi and peace movements . |
| 6 | Eleanor was staring at the altar . |
| 7 | ‘ Is something the matter , princess ? ’ he asked , seeing that Meredith was staring at the handkerchief in consternation . |
| 8 | Ballymena 's Paul Hardy was replaced at the start of the second half by Jason Gilmore who scored a hat trick for United 's Reserve team against Coleraine Res last night . |
| 9 | He was also tired and cold , and in between worrying that Prince Richard was lying at the bottom of the lake with a broken neck had been forced to entertain the idea that he himself might be less fit than he should be . |
| 10 | June 's first duty was to welcome Kay Evans as the Society 's new ‘ Caretaker ’ President : ( Kay was elected at the A.G.M. following the unanimous recommendation of the Executive Committee ) . |
| 11 | On Friday Madge Grimsilk was sitting at the back of the stalls again . |
| 12 | Edward remained in Gascony until the end of April 1274 , fully occupied with the settlement of the case of Gaston VII in which Edward was represented at the Parlement of Paris by one of the best civil lawyers in Europe , Francesco Accursius of Bologna . |
| 13 | Hawkins was standing at the top where he 'd climbed from the ladder and was gazing nonplussed at the strange scarecrow on the floor . |
| 14 | Thus an ivory statue of Athena Alea from the famous sanctuary at Tegea in the Greek Peloponnese was set at the entrance to his Forum , while a tusk of the Calydonian boar — no doubt correctly labelled — passed into the emperor 's bone collection . |
| 15 | Luke Travis was standing at the top of the short flight of stone steps that led down to the garden . |
| 16 | Leni was waiting at the foot of the last flight of stairs , which was partitioned off to give her a flimsy front door of her own . |
| 17 | Within three months Eva was champing at the bit . |
| 18 | The disinherited fell out over the distribution of some of the fruits of their victory : Beaumont was captured at the siege of Dunlarg Castle and had to raise loans , including one from Edward III , to pay his ransom , while in September 1334 David II 's supporters reoccupied much of the land ceded to Edward III , forcing the English administration to retreat to Berwick . |
| 19 | HSP leader Dobroslav Paraga was arrested at the end of November . |
| 20 | The family was posted to Sussex in 1847 and Dresser was educated at the Government School of Design at Somerset House in London from 1847 to 1854 . |
| 21 | HARTLEPOOL 'S Midland Senior League game with Wrexham was postponed at the request of the FA Cup giant-killers . |
| 22 | Vince was standing at the window , looking out . |
| 23 | Landau was speaking at the announcement of Rhône-Poulenc 's 1991 results in Manchester , where he revealed a 3.2 per cent increase in net profits to FFr 2004m ( £1 = FFr 9.5 ) , and a 6.9 per cent rise in turnover to FFr 83817m . |
| 24 | CICS for OS/2 is not the only ‘ middleware ’ that IBM was touting at the end of March ; the company continued the theme by unveiling the first implementations of its Message Queue Interface , dubbed the MQSeries , and said that it will try to promote them as a cross-system standard . |
| 25 | Alexei was staring at the ground . |
| 26 | It is not as if Eurotunnel was working at the leading-edge of technological innovation . |
| 27 | So I drove up to Illinois , where Ray was living at the time , and got him to build me one . |
| 28 | Fergus was staring at the plasterboard expanse above them . |
| 29 | When the flat door opened , Rachaela was sitting at the table . |
| 30 | Lord Hulton was waiting at the entrance and I thought I had better warn him . |