Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun sg] at [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The 33-year-old proprietor of Alton Electrical was resting at home at Lime Grove , Alton , when we caught up with him .
2 British Rail Engineering says it accepts that Mr Hayward was exposed to asbestos at work which led to his death.But it disputes the amount claimed.The Judge will decide on the claim tomorrow .
3 It was to go into effect at noon on Friday , giving the commanders a chance to disengage their forces and the political leaders 48 hours to work on a settlement .
4 The linked dataset was tabulated by age at application in 1977–81 , by sex , diagnosis , and method of diagnosis in order to evaluate potential risk factors for becoming a longterm user , conditional on surviving to 1989 .
5 She appeared before Peterborough magistrates last week on 12 charges of theft from a pensioner and was committed for trial at Crown Court .
6 Today at Cirencester magistrates court , John Gore , bearded with a long ponytail , was committed for trial at Crown court .
7 Former club steward Peter Bishton , 34 , of Corporation Road , Darlington , charged with stealing nearly £4,000 Christmas savings from Richmond Comrades Club , was committed for trial at crown court by Richmond magistrates and remanded on bail until April 7 .
8 The proposal for the recreation ground in Brislands Lane was agreed in principle at East Hampshire District Council last week .
9 In a letter to Zborowski dated 27 February , he told his dealer that he was going to work at No. 13 Rue de France .
10 Yes , I was born in Lane at Lane on the eleventh November , nineteen seventeen .
11 That doubt , however , was set at rest at lunch time when she got a message from Mrs. Mott .
12 Peace abroad was accompanied by peace at home .
13 James III 's idea of soldiering abroad , for example , to win renown and territory in Brittany and the county to the south , Saintonge , and in Guelders , was blocked by resistance at home ; in 1473 parliament tartly pointed out that if renown was what he was after , what he should be doing was ‘ to travel through his realm and put such justice and policy in his own realm that the brute and the fame of him might pass in other countries ’ .
14 If a noble was excluded from favour at court , his dependants might look elsewhere for a patron , and the noble 's following would thus be weakened .
15 Wheelchair-bound and brain-damaged Steven , 17 , of Bristol , was deprived of oxygen at birth .
16 The driver of the other vehicle involved , Paul Simeon Scott , 40 , of St Edmund 's Green , Sedgefield , was released after treatment at hospital .
17 The research — and terrorism — progressed when he was lecturing in politics at University College , Cardiff , and then reader at the University of Wales .
18 4th April 1898 the lighting was changed to gas at Bridgewater which probably means that it was in service in that area .
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