Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 2 | For these , training was a regular event and in one case was carried out at a separate meeting every alternate month . |
| 3 | The commendation reads : ‘ A difficult rescue was carried out at a high degree of risk to the crew . |
| 4 | Further modernisation was carried out at the Imperial Grain Warehouse . |
| 5 | The operation was carried out at the National Heart the next day , with the odds improving and I was then transferred to Harefield for five weeks . |
| 6 | Considerable work was carried out at the old carding mill . |
| 7 | The base was picked up at a second-hand store , and the crimson cotton shade came from Habitat . |
| 8 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |
| 9 | An emissary from London to St Petersburg was picked up at the imperial frontier and a large number of compromising letters fell into the hands of tsarist investigators . |
| 10 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |
| 11 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 12 | It must have been an automatic reaction because he was looking down at the motionless figure and shouting , ‘ Harriet ! ’ |
| 13 | Chris was looking back at a colourful four-wheeled cart drawn by two tasselled horses . |
| 14 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |
| 15 | I had never taught before but was pushed in at the deep end and had to learn to swim . |
| 16 | Interest in recycling was stirred up at a free seminar organised by ICI 's plastics environmental affairs group . |
| 17 | Speakers were David Snow of BP Bitor ( the company which imports and markets the fuel from Venezuela ) , Peter Taylor from the Oil Pollution Research Unit at Fort Popton , Dr Clive Morgan , also from Fort Popton but who was drafted in at the last minute to play the part of National Power Plc , and finally Gordon James of Narberth Friends of the Earth . |
| 18 | Making her way to the bookcase , she was weighing up the possibility of reading the title spines without putting on the light when a table-lamp was clicked on at the other end of the room . |
| 19 | The booby-trapped tin was handed over at a nearby checkpoint after the woman , dressed all in black , smiled and wished the soldiers a happy Christmas . |
| 20 | For the past five years members of the Durham Concert Secretaries Federation have held fund-raising events on behalf of the Wareham Wood Memorial Fund for cancer relief and the latest cheque was handed over at a special ceremony at Osborne Social Club , Chester-le-Street . |
| 21 | I was able to meet some of the leading Indian academic figures in English and Linguistics , and at the same time to find out what was going on at the lower levels of teaching in Universities and affiliated Colleges . |
| 22 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 23 | Jarvis , who was getting out at the next station , asked where they would be the following night ; the man who said his name was Jed Lowrie told him the Metropolitan , the Hammersmith Line . |
| 24 | Lawrence had been drafted into the lineup following a finger injury suffered by Chris Lewis , while Botham was called up at the 11th hour to win his 100th cap when Derek Pringle 's sore back failed to respond to treatment . |
| 25 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |
| 26 | A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute . |
| 27 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 28 | The plan was called off at the last moment . |
| 29 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 30 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |