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

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1 And no , I did n't know why Salome was driving around Kent at midnight on a Saturday .
2 Smith , by contrast , was missed by Crowe at slip off Thompson when 44 , but , that apart , they gave the bowlers little encouragement .
3 A fine boy ( John X ) was born to Elisabeth at term , as well as another to the young control girl .
4 Haigh was born in Stamford at no. 22 King 's Road on 24 July 1909 , the son of an engineer .
5 I see Speed was replaced by Pemberton at half-time last night .
6 She first represented her country when she was just 15 and only last month , Tennis Ireland selected her for her fourth international match , which was played in Italy at Easter .
7 This evidence sheds valuable light , therefore , not only on the first recorded Northumbrian royal overtures to the Frankish court but also on the disturbed state of the kingdom on the eve of Alhred 's expulsion in 774 when he was driven from York at Easter ( ASC D , s.a. 774 ) into exile among the Picts .
8 Regarding the ‘ fat factor ’ , he did n't look particularly portly in the picture in last nights local rag ( looks like it was taken during Wimbledon at home ) .
9 This look was created by Cathy at Cat 's Whiskers
10 The Encomiast has him beheaded by Earl Eric personally , while Florence says that he was killed in London at Christmas 1017 and that Cnut ordered the corpse to be left unburied .
11 A large meeting was held at Cirencester at Easter ( 17 April ) 1020 and Ealdorman Æthelweard of Wessex outlawed .
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