Example sentences of "were [verb] at [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there . |
| 2 | Wandsworth and Pentonville , in London , with rather less capacity , were built at about the same time to serve what was then the largest city in the world . |
| 3 | And possibly it was just a coincidence that Cannistraro 's revelations , fully in keeping with the CIA 's tradition of conducting America 's secret business in public , were made at about the same time that his former colleagues in the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to discredit Lester Coleman as an obstacle to general acceptance of the Libyan/Air Malta explanation of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 4 | Three guerrillas were executed at about the same time for offences against civilians , according to the INPFL newspaper Scorpion on Aug. 2 . |
| 5 | They were working at about the same time as Turner and Constable and shared those artists ’ concerns in relation to painting directly from nature , which Dahl described as Naturvei — nature 's Way . |