Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] at [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 2 | After a one-minute search , he noticed the National Geographic magazine which he had been looking at with the teacher earlier in the day . |
| 3 | Gqozo 's claim that his troops had been shot at by the demonstrators ( ballistics evidence showed that the one dead Ciskei soldier was shot by his fellow soldiers ) . |
| 4 | Similar proposals for another single-lead junction near Yoker had been submitted at about the same time , the inquiry was told , but Dr Hill had insisted that ScotRail justify its use . |
| 5 | An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such . |