Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rodney was standing at one end of the table , a turquoise can in his hand . |
| 2 | It is unsound to argue that Svidrigailov 's experience was only a bad dream , because the manuscript variants prove that Dostoevsky was prepared at one stage to forego the actuality of the sexual outcome between Stavrogin and the child . |
| 3 | November 1697 , will always be associated with Chiswick , although he was constantly referred to , in his day , as ‘ Mr. Hogarth of Leicester Fields ’ — the name by which Leicester Square was known at that time — as that was his business centre and where he worked before he married . |
| 4 | It was after five-thirty on a Friday night , and Tom was expected at any minute . |
| 5 | Your worships , er , there 's nothing at all more sinister in the failure to stop and failure to report than than that , i th that is a a true record of the er er er of the incident as far as Mrs was concerned erm and it is something which erm comes about an accident which came about probably through the inexperience of the children er , running across the pedestrian crossing thinking that they have priority erm and not having regard to other road users er , and Mrs was travelling at slow speed but it was she was put in a difficult position by the the way in which the children ran across the road . |
| 6 | When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed . |
| 7 | He added NCP was represented at all site meetings . |
| 8 | He added NCP was represented at all site meetings . |
| 9 | The House of Lords was deliberating at that moment whether such people could legally be Trustees of a Church of England School ( it was eventually decided that they could not ) . |
| 10 | The inquiry was set up after Ben Johnson was disqualified at last year 's Olympics . |
| 11 | Yorkshire 's most testing time came soon after lunch when Metcalfe , after top-scoring with 38 , was well taken by Rajesh Maru at first slip against Cardigan Connor and David Byas was caught at mid wicket off Paul-Jan Bakker to make them a shaky 95 for three . |
| 12 | And to make the point even more strongly , Lend-Lease was ended at Congressional insistence in August 1945 before the war with Japan was over ; and the Truman Administration was only allowed to grant Britain her first post-war loan on the most ungenerous terms . |
| 13 | In 2001 Kubrick was aiming at state-of-the-art realism for most of the film ; then he launched off into slightly obscure fantasy in the fourth and last section , ‘ Jupiter and Beyond Infinity ’ . |
| 14 | The Whitehall documents leaked by Mr Cook show arms embargo-breaking to Saddam was known at ministerial level . |
| 15 | Fraulein Winkelmann was sitting at one end of a small kitchen table , separated from a big colour set at the other end by a cup of coffee and a plate of cream cakes . |
| 16 | George was sitting at one end of a vast empty dining table , with a little oasis of bottles , coffee pot and cheeseboard at his elbow . |
| 17 | Ranatunga was caught at short leg with just four runs needed , giving Jayasuriya his moment of glory , while Tillekeratne remained 36 not out . |
| 18 | As originally planned , MOPP was discontinued at this stage ; even assuming that tumour was still present , a further reduction of its volume as a result of more than eight cycles was considered unlikely . |
| 19 | The other related campaign in which Mrs Whitehouse was involved at this time — and more centrally than in the OZ case — was the prosecution brought against the publisher of a book of advice for schoolchildren called The Little Red Schoolbook . |
| 20 | Moscow was said at this stage to have been somewhat sluggish over the provision of spares and replacement items . |
| 21 | He remembers the Very High Frequency ( VHF ) radio was far superior to the kit the RAF was using at that time . |
| 22 | The Mid Hampshire coroner , Grahame Short , said : ‘ It seems that Sarah was contemplating at that time taking her life . |
| 23 | A summons relating to the further appeal to the Hoge Raad was served at that office in accordance with an amendment to the Netherlands Code of Civil Procedure introduced in 1985 . |
| 24 | The two were apparently on guard duty at the Lille Barracks , Farnham , Surrey , when 19-year-old Robert Smith was blasted at point-blank range . |
| 25 | The day after the robbery Frank Smith was arrested at this caravan site near Oxford . |
| 26 | Don Neely said that Crowe was asked at this time whether he was available for the World Cup if somebody else were skipper : ‘ I wo n't tell you his reaction . |