Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be [vb pp] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this increasingly active role which Highlander was playing in the civil rights movement , it was only a matter of time until the reactionary extremism , which the blacks had long been fighting against , began to be directed at Highlander itself . |
| 2 | We discovered that a paella needed to be ordered at lunchtime for the evening , and went back to eat it while watching boats come back in the gathering gloom . |
| 3 | Margaret agreed to be seen at home by the therapist initially for three sessions , to help her express her feelings of grief about the loss of her husband , and to explore ways of coping with her practical problems . |
| 4 | His work is grouped thematically as well as chronologically in this catalogue : thus the first volume covers the ‘ table ’ sculptures , his strange , sprawling ‘ still life ’ assemblages made to be viewed at waist height , from 1966–78 ; the second and later volumes continue with this idiom , while the substantial Volume III deals with larger scale , outdoor steel sculptures . |
| 5 | Supply flights had to be made at night ; the aircraft had no radar or proper navigation equipment , could not get information even about the weather , and had to find drop zones in thick jungle by the light or smoke of bonfires . |
| 6 | People had to be visited at home and in hospital . |
| 7 | One criterion for a patient 's inclusion in this study was that pyloric stenosis had to be confirmed at surgery . |
| 8 | It was seven at night and the commercial had to be presented at breakfast the next day . |
| 9 | But he had to be kept at arm 's length , because of Victoria , and because of the other three nurses . |
| 10 | The making and implementing of CNAA policy for the introduction of new subject areas and the extension of established ones were therefore constantly faced with a range of problems which had to be faced at officer and board levels , and in debate in committee and Council . |
| 11 | However , all salt had to be treated at source and it had to be consumed regularly , and though there was some success in parts of South America , these conditions could seldom be met . |
| 12 | As the tracks were not completed at West Croydon , such transfers proved rather difficult and cars had to be moved at night , using temporary rails to bridge the gap at the top of Tamworth Road . |
| 13 | But following the fracas between the two front rows , the Romanian hooker , Ion was viciously punched ( no-one could identify the perpetrator ) and suffering from blurred vision , had to be replaced at half-time . |
| 14 | Some of the parts were more difficult to make than others — the curves of the bonnet , for instance , were achieved by shaping aluminium around a length of pipe — but a few , like the wind-screen , had to be bought at auto jumbles . |
| 15 | At every stage of the interchurch process we were hearing voices saying to us it is not sufficient that there should be fellowship , agreement , companionship , cooperation at the highest levels but it had to be found at every level , it had to be found at grass roots level . |
| 16 | Before 1765 Protestants were not allowed to be buried on the island and had to be buried at sea off Garajau Point . |
| 17 | ‘ Did I ever say I wanted to be buried at sea ? ’ |
| 18 | One or more levels were put in from the side of Levers Water to carry out a shallow sub-surface investigation of veins which appeared to be untried , or suspected to be covered at outcrop . |