Example sentences of "was [verb] at [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father died when she was two , and , after education at the Bar Convent in York , she was courted at fourteen by the thirty-five-year-old Joseph Radcliffe : ‘ poor , little me ! … like a bird in a cage , I fluttered to be at liberty . ’ |
| 2 | She turned round to sec if he was laughing at one of the postcards but he was laughing at her . |
| 3 | Its central way-station was located at one of the most remote places in the British empire ; Alice Springs . |
| 4 | Having started dancing on the advice of a PE teacher , he was accepted at 16 into the Royal Ballet Upper School , the only black student there . |
| 5 | Next to him , his back to the gramophone , his friend Danny was looking at one of the Meccano magazines he had been given . |
| 6 | BARNHAM HALL was built at one of the most confusing periods of domestic architecture in England . |
| 7 | The baby was born at 7.20 in the morning , in the labour ward not the delivery room because Wendy failed to persuade any of the nurses that the baby was on the way . |
| 8 | ‘ The chief agent was awoken at six in the morning ; he had to ask John Wakeham , you know how good John is at this sort of thing , to quit his room at Topps Hotel ( he wo n't stay in the Grand for all the tea in China and who shall blame him ? ) and pop down to Kemp Town and arrange bail . |
| 9 | She was woken at seven by the night nurses who had to tidy her up before they went off duty . |
| 10 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
| 11 | A big hairy man in a dirty undershirt was sitting at one of the tables , a short cigar clamped in his face . |
| 12 | WHEN TEA was taken at 3.10 on the final afternoon of the first Test , even the more fervent student for the long game could have been forgiven for switching to automatic pilot . |
| 13 | One day , a week before the move , while she was standing at one of the upstairs windows , Celia saw the rector pushing his bicycle up the drive . |
| 14 | I was standing at one of the windows of the outer office , watching the rain fling itself remorselessly against the panes . |
| 15 | The total world population was put at 190 at the last count . |
| 16 | David Fairfax , their host , with a fancy apron and a chef 's hat , was presiding at one of the charcoal fires . |
| 17 | Neil Clarke , chair of British Coal , announced on Oct. 13 that production was to cease at 31 of the corporation 's 50 pits over the next five months ( including four which were to be mothballed ) and that up to 30,000 jobs were to be lost . |
| 18 | Falmouth 's Arun class Elizabeth Ann was launched at 2140 at the request of the coxswain of The Lizard 's Tyne class David Robinson , which already had L'Espoir , a 40ft converted fishing boat , in two and which was also standing by the yacht Innocence . |
| 19 | The official exchange rate was fixed at US$1.00=NK60 as of Oct. 1 ( hitherto approximately 30 to the dollar ) ; on the unofficial parallel market , however , the currency was traded at 2,000 to the dollar . |