Example sentences of "was [verb] at the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff held a 48-hour strike last week and said a 72-hour strike would be held this week unless Paul Knight was reinstated at the home in Barnet . |
| 2 | Ann Hutchison , daughter of the Reverend Francis Marbury of Alford , was baptised at the church in 1591 and married William Hutchinson in 1611 . |
| 3 | Let me just close with some words from Matthew chapter nine in verse ten , he said that it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house behold many tax gatherers and sinners came and were dining with Jesus and his disciples , and when the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples , why is your teacher eating with the tax gatherers and sinners ? |
| 4 | Finally , he was arrested in 1685 and was hanged at the Grassmarket in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | In Dering Street , Grob gives a first exhibition to Danny Moynihan ( 12 May–20 June ) , who was seen at the gallery in a mixed exhibition two years ago . |
| 6 | was pipped at the post in the men 's finals by from Gale 's . |
| 7 | Over £3,000 was raised at the event in 1988 , even though it was a damp and miserable day . |
| 8 | The body of thirty year old Ian Barrett was found at the weekend in his flat at Cowley in Oxford . |
| 9 | Graham screamed at Laidlaw who was staring at the pistol in his hand . |
| 10 | ‘ Is something the matter , princess ? ’ he asked , seeing that Meredith was staring at the handkerchief in consternation . |
| 11 | Topaz did n't have a chance to reply because Timothy Amsterdam had walked up to them and was staring at the marquis in blank amazement . |
| 12 | He was stationed at the Base in some sort of fake capacity . |
| 13 | She was sitting at the mirror in her room , having excused herself from her cousins ' chatter minutes before . |
| 14 | By eight o'clock that evening Paige was sitting at the dressing-table in her luxurious hotel room busily putting the finishing touches to her make-up . |
| 15 | He was sitting at the bench in the window , writing notes . |
| 16 | Farrell was sitting at the table in the room , thumbing 9mm bullets into two magazines for the UZI . |
| 17 | That same evening , after dark , Seb was sitting at the table in Fern Cottage , working by the light of a lamp . |
| 18 | ‘ The hardest part of the ‘ Challenge ’ was standing at the wheel in the cockpit after only four hours ' sleep , feeling like you were being bombarded by cannons firing icy water . |
| 19 | Yet in 1928 , whilst Karajan was studying at the Musikhochschule in Vienna , Schoenberg was telling Erwin Stein : |
| 20 | Christopher Wood 's last New York exhibition on this theme was held at the Shepherd in 1985 and he felt the present time to be right for another one , particularly given the slackness of the London market at present . |
| 21 | The council 's new Sportsworks project was launched at the centre in the town 's Ormesby Road . |