Example sentences of "they were [vb pp] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Menem delivered a speech over the remains before they were interred at the Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires where Eva Perón was also buried . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You may think they were tainted , but we know they were tested at the priory and I doubt the Lady Eleanor would have taken them solely on the Prince 's word . ’ |
| 12 | I tried to move my hands and they hurt , but I established that they were n't tied , they were taped at the wrists . |
| 13 | Only 1 man in 5 had planned the occasion , for 17% it was a one-night stand , for 13% it happened at a party , while 11% say they were drunk at the time . |
| 14 | in Reid in response to counsel 's submission that a husband could only be guilty of kidnapping his wife if they were separated at the time . |
| 15 | She did mind , though , and , as they were met at the emergency entrance with a wheeled stretcher-bed for Faye and a paged message for Tom summoning him to the renal unit to attend urgently to another patient , her concern for Faye 's condition battled for priority in her thoughts with painful images of Marise Wyspianski glowing in the magic aura of Tom 's kiss , and of Tom himself , at the wheel of the Mercedes just moments ago , staring so grimly into the Christmas Eve traffic . |
| 16 | They were caught at the sett after a member of the public spotted them on farmland , said Simon Caterall , prosecuting . |
| 17 | They were described at the time as an attempt at ‘ counter-revolution ’ , and in subsequent years many thousands of Albanians have been arrested and punished . |
| 18 | They were aimed at the sky , poised ready to bounce signals off satellites over the rim of the earth . |
| 19 | Erm whilst I 've not been able to produce an audited er set of accounts I do have er a set of figures for you erm and as you said at the the beginning of your opening er speech Mr Chairman that erm we had one or two losses during the year , those er in actual fact did n't erm affect us in thi this particular financial year as they were aimed at the September December period , but therefore they will be reflected in next year 's figures not or in the current year 's figures or the next annual general meeting 's figures . |
| 20 | They were approved at the party 's 1991 conference [ see ED 51 ] . |
| 21 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
| 22 | Probably , during the war we did quite well , what with the black Americans because they were stationed at the towers and they used to give us kids chocolates and |
| 23 | If donations were taken at a service , they were left at the door either on the way in or on the way out . |
| 24 | The four , of Bangladeshi origin , were returning a video to a store when they were attacked at the junction of Commercial Road and Deancross Street . |
| 25 | They were unsettled at the start by a blind man pushing his way to the middle of the audience , barking out ‘ Make way ! |
| 26 | They are satirical and often so horrific that they were suppressed at the time . |
| 27 | Having been brought up as patriots , they were benumbed at the thought that there was to be a conflict between their country and all the beliefs that they held dear . |
| 28 | They were found at the bottom of drawers , in filing cabinets , and stuffed in amongst other papers . |
| 29 | The strikes were sparked off by the rank and file , most were unofficial , and often they were resisted at the outset by national trade union leaderships . |
| 30 | The murder , it is suspected , was intended to foment open conflict in Belfast between the Ulster Defence Association and the rival Ulster Volunteer Force as relations between them were strained at the time . |