Example sentences of "was [verb] at [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the morning of the Melbourne Stakes , which was to be Phar Lap 's warm-up race for the Melbourne Cup three days later , he was shot at from the window of a car as he returned from exercise . |
| 2 | I thought of them studying the Military Manual of Fakhr-i-Mudabbir , the Adab al-harb Wa'l-Shaj'a , which was written at about the time Tughlukabad was being built . |
| 3 | Randy Hansen 's stage show is an extension of what Jimi Hendrix was doing at around the time of Woodstock and the Isle Of Wight festivals . |
| 4 | Your Big Mac index , and William Burke 's letter in the same issue about the yen-dollar exchange rate , brought to mind an explanation , which may be apocryphal , of how the exchange rate of ¥360 to $1 was arrived at during the occupation of Japan . |
| 5 | She began showing up at whatever hotel he was working at during the day , claiming to have been just passing . |