Example sentences of "who were [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they saw other Girls rehearsing in troupe , Elsie and Eddie Port seemed to be the only pupils who were training at the School . |
| 2 | The models , who were clustered at the door , stepped quickly out of her way . |
| 3 | Were these people who were staying at the house ? |
| 4 | In 1222 it was reported to the Council of Regency that Thomas of Milton , hereditary warden of Inglewood Forest , had under him twelve riding foresters with their underforesters , who were maintained at the expense of the Crown and the men of the king 's demesnes . |
| 5 | At Llanvillin his oratory caused two huge butcher-like men to dance about the room in excited admiration , and at Bala , he provoked a violent quarrel among the justice , the doctor , and others of the parish who were gathered at the inn . |
| 6 | The archway was bright with the brass plates of the dozens of corporations who were registered at the address to avoid paying tax in their home countries . |
| 7 | In January 1990 ( i ) two people were on Jan. 22 shot dead and nine injured in the gold-mining town of Carletonville , 60 km south-west of Johannesburg , when police opened fire on a crowd of 5,000 blacks who were protesting at the death the previous week of a 16-year-old boy while held in detention ; and ( ii ) using razor wire , water cannon and plastic bullets , the police on Jan. 23 dispersed an illegal gathering of 8,000 demonstrators in Cape Town who were supporting the National Education Crisis Committee 's protest against the black education system . |
| 8 | for every successful candidate there are bound to be at least two who were pipped at the post , who jumped the final fence only to find that the client had chosen one of their fellow front-runners : and these were the ones who — by and large — responded to the survey rather than the successful ones . |
| 9 | Had these votes been suitably transferable the relative positions of Smyth ( Other Unionist ) , elected sixth , and Gillespie ( SDLP ) runner-up , who were separated at the end of the count by only 179 votes , could have been reversed . |
| 10 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
| 11 | Most of the survivors were ones who were working at the time . |
| 12 | On arrival in Athenry eight miles from Galway City , the train was greeted by the English steel band ‘ Listen to the Noise ’ who were performing at the Athenry Festival after which the party was formally welcomed by the acting chairman of the Athenry Community Council , Fr. |
| 13 | In those days there was n't a great deal of of mining , I mean was n't open , and er there was a tremendous amount , well there 's a fair amount of of traffic agricultural traffic , and I mean one had to accept that virtually everything came in , all coal , road stone , erm goods required er for well 's who were going at the time , they er they used the railway . |
| 14 | ‘ Has anyone seen Christine or Robert King ? ’ she asked , turning to the others who were sitting at the back of the hall . |
| 15 | The only occupants of the room were a couple of young men who were sitting at the table , smoking Turkish cigarettes . |
| 16 | There was nobody else except two strangers who were standing at the back of the church . |
| 17 | She said that some of her council members were worried about the effect my outfit would have on the young girl athletes who were running at the meeting . |
| 18 | Three other people including a woman , all believed to be from the one family who were arrested at the scene are now being questioned by police , while three rifles recovered in a follow up search are being examined by forensic experts . |
| 19 | Last night police were still questioning the other three men and one woman who were arrested at the site . |
| 20 | He gave a wonderful talk to all the students who were starting at the university . |