Example sentences of "was [verb] [conj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his autobiography A Little Learning ( 1964 ) Waugh was to observe that at the age of sixteen he noticed that his publisher father , ‘ whom I had grown up to accept with complete simplicity ’ , was in fact a highly gifted actor in everything he did . |
| 2 | And it begs the question on whose authority the nursing home place was accepted and at the price asked . |
| 3 | In August 33-year-old newsagent John Carson was shot while at the counter of his shop approximately yards from the scene of Tuesday 's murder . |
| 4 | Monteverdi 's 1610 Music for Vespers was written while at the Gonzaga court . |
| 5 | The court was told that at the time he thought he had AIDS . |
| 6 | Time after time he was shortlisted because at the interviews the company managers liked him ( he 's quite intelligent , outgoing and friendly ) . |
| 7 | In February 1974 a mobile library service was inaugurated and at the end of its first ten years the number of books lent should have grown to nearly twenty times as many . |
| 8 | However , even at kindergarten his rebellious streak was showing and at the age of five or six he was playing truant . |
| 9 | In fact , the decision was taken because at the time the government was pursuing a policy of shadowing the Deutsche Mark , a policy which it could be called upon to defend in Parliament . |