Example sentences of "was [verb] at [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was educated at home until the age of twelve , when she became a day-boarder at Strathallan House , London , until the age of sixteen . |
| 2 | Trenching and laying of cable trunking was done at Pendre for the installation of new signalling . |
| 3 | As the waiter cleared away the debris of their meal , Luke Hunter was looking at Folly across the table with an expression in his eyes that she found hard to classify . |
| 4 | During the difficult times in the thirties , the bread and butter money for Tillers was made at Christmas through the patronage of Laidler and Littler so an offer of a regular summer season was eagerly accepted by the office . |
| 5 | ‘ I was presented at Court in the summer of 1882 , ’ she said quietly . |
| 6 | He was celebrated at court for the eloquence of his sermons , and in 1683 Lord Dartmouth , who commanded the large fleet which was to visit Tangiers and evacuate its garrison , implored him ‘ For God 's sake , and as I am to answer for the preservation of so many souls as he hath put under my care ’ , to join the expedition as his chief chaplain . |
| 7 | The jewel was sold at auction for the then amazing sum of £1.3 million in 1987 . |
| 8 | Quality of life was assessed at entry to the study and every two months with the functional living index for cancer ( FLIC ) . |
| 9 | They watched silently as the car was driven at speed off the road to brake violently on the turf of the headland . |
| 10 | I was woken at midnight by the cries of hundreds of Lilliputians outside my house . |
| 11 | In December 1986 the permissible concentration of alcohol was set at zero for the first two years of driving . |
| 12 | Yeah it was dumped at sea off the Cork , Cork Light erm Cork Lightship . |
| 13 | In Zimbabwe , black teachers ' pay was increased at independence to the levels paid to white teachers . |
| 14 | When I was sitting at dinner on the terrace . |
| 15 | Last July , after months of furious debate over whether the artist 's wishes were being respected , Picasso 's ‘ Guernica ’ was removed at dawn from the Prado 's annexe , El Cason del Buen Retiro . |
| 16 | Increasingly with voluntary bodies , and I know that this was discussed at length in the P A G , but will be of interest to members , increasingly with voluntary bodies , we are moving towards er , jointly providing services with them , in a partnership arrangement where we are effectively purchasing and commissioning services from them , and that is the way we would wish the policy to go . |
| 17 | Midway through 1906–07 Archie was deployed at right-back in the Palace line-ups , although he had a few outings on the right wing , and he played throughout our fabulous progress to the FA Cup quarter-finals . |
| 18 | In autumn 1978 , ultrasonic pulsing at two-second intervals was recorded at dawn at the King Stone . |
| 19 | At a ceremony in Windhoek , the capital , the South African flag was lowered at midnight on the evening of March 20 , and was replaced by the newly designed flag of the Republic of Namibia ( composed of diagonal stripes of blue , red and green separated by white lines , with a golden sun at the top near the hoist ) . |
| 20 | But just when I was feeling at home in the loin-cloth and boot polish , and when I 'd learned my lines before anyone else and was getting as competent as a little orangutan on the scaffolding , I saw that our conflicts had n't ended . |
| 21 | The crowd listened as though Yehudi Menuhin was scraping at heaven from the pavement . |
| 22 | He was working at present on the rocks at the north-west point , which were only accessible at low tide , or from a boat . |
| 23 | Sent by his father to France at the age of 12 , he was captured at sea by the English and kept in their custody for eighteen years . |