Example sentences of "people were [verb] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Budapest Radio said several people were killed at a demonstration in the Transylvanian town of Tirgu Mures yesterday . |
2 | A group of people were gathered at a mill two blocks away . |
3 | Most of the current generation of older people were born at a time when the motor car was an unusual sight on the streets , aeroplanes were rarely seen in the skies , telephones were rare , radio and television were many years from invention . |
4 | Drug pushers have been warned to stay away from legal rave parties after almost a hundred people were arrested at an event over the weekend . |
5 | SIXTEEN police officers were hurt , including seven sprayed with CS gas , and 51 people were arrested at an acid house party , police said yesterday . |