Example sentences of "was [verb] at [noun] on [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unification of the Yemen Arab Republic ( North Yemen , with its capital at San'aa ) and the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen ( South Yemen , with its capital at Aden ) was proclaimed at midday on May 22 , after ratification the previous day by both parliaments . |
| 2 | The preliminary text of a new good neighbourliness and mutual co-operation treaty with the Soviet Union was agreed at talks on Nov. 5-6 . |
| 3 | By 1845 the Pennines between Manchester and Sheffield were about to be conquered , and a terminus in Sheffield was opened at Bridgehouses on July 14th of that year . |
| 4 | William George Smith was born at Southampton on Nov 4 1923 , son of a Merchant Navy engineer who had accompanied Shackleton on his journey to the Antarctic . |
| 5 | Geoffrey Reginald Giles was born at Coventry on Dec 17 1936 and educated at Bablake School , Coventry , and Manchester University , where he qualified as a doctor in 1960 . |
| 6 | Zulfiqar Ali Khan was born at Rampur on March 11 , 1933 , the second son of Maj-General Sir Syed Mohammad Raza Ali Khan , the ruler of Rampur , renowned for his sexual prowess . |
| 7 | Professor Clifford Formston has vividly described the Hobday debacle , and the period when the College was based at Streatley on Thames . |
| 8 | ln the early 1930s part of my childhood was spent at Redcar on Teesside , then as now a down at heel seaside resort surrounded by steel works and wind swept dunes . |
| 9 | Seven races made up the first championship and the first was run at Silverstone on Saturday , 13 May 1950 . |
| 10 | The car , numbered 200 and painted in the new ivory and green livery , was delivered at night on June 19th 1933 , just in time to achieve maximum impact at a Conference of Municipal Transport Managers being held in the town . |
| 11 | She was entertaining at Windsor on Saturday . ’ |
| 12 | The first semi-final of the inter-club cricket quiz , organised by the Farnham Umpires Association , was held at Grayshott on Tuesday . |
| 13 | A fresh Polisario attack was launched at Amgala on Nov. 8 , and it was claimed by their forces that 250 Moroccan soldiers had been killed , a further 325 wounded and 36 taken prisoner . |