Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ladies ' K4 500m was slotted in at this point and although Dallaway/Davey/Eastwood/Thorogood were 8th in their heat they went into a semi final which acted as a repêchage . |
| 2 | Consequently a great deal of fulling , spinning , weaving and dyeing was carried out at domestic level , with plants probably being deliberately cultivated to provide dyes . |
| 3 | A complementary body of work was carried out at this time by Flavell and his colleagues ( 1981 ) . |
| 4 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 5 | ( The fact that a huge lorry was passing by at that time must have been coincidental , I 'm sure . ) |
| 6 | While this was going on at one firm , the table split and the trainee dealer slipped and sprained his ankle . |
| 7 | The three alien forms were originally to be realized by Roger Dicken ; but he completed the small forms only , and Rambaldi was called in at short notice to do the Alien head . |
| 8 | He was called in at short notice due to the unfortunate motor accident involving Design Director , Bill Naysmith . |
| 9 | The rationale for this was set out at some length : |
| 10 | A quick reshuffle followed , and Cusick was brought in at short notice . |
| 11 | She was pissed off at missing Triste at the bar , but there would be other jobs . |
| 12 | Margaret Ewing ( SNP , Moray ) challenged the Leader of the Commons , Tony Newton , who was standing in at Prime Minister 's question time , to clear up the confusion after giving advance notice that she planned to raise the issue . |
| 13 | Critics of the deal , which was worked out at ministerial level , say that it would have been more sensible to spend the money on rebuilding the Villahermosa Palace to be an annexe for the nearby Prado , which is urgently in need of more space , as well as the kind of modern facilities which have ‘ put the Villahermosa among the ranks of intelligent buildings and the top museums of the Nineties ’ , as the press release boasts . |
| 14 | This theory , already prefigured by Klopstock , was worked out at inordinate length by the poet , scholar and translator Johann Heinrich Voss ( 1751–1816 ) and , erroneous though it was , it served to fuel the growing fire of Hellenism by Stimulating the imitation of Greek metres in German poetry . |
| 15 | Gooch , though , England 's loyal and reliable banker , went for his second modest score of the match , a choker of a dismissal in that he was held down at second slip at 3.43pm , three minutes into interval time . |