Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Trepper was captured and the Rote Kapelle was wound up at the end of 1942 . |
| 2 | BETTER nursing levels should be provided at the showpiece St John 's Hospital at Livingston , it was said yesterday at the end of a fatal accident inquiry . |
| 3 | As I recall , he had not been initially so preoccupied with the peace treaty when it was drawn up at the end of the Great War , and I think it is fair to say that his interest was prompted not so much by an analysis of the treaty , but by his friendship with Herr Karl-Heinz Bremann . |
| 4 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 5 | When the local government map was laid down at the end of the nineteenth century , many of the administrative units — for example , Anglo-Saxon shires and medieval boroughs — were already outdated . |
| 6 | King 's Cross-Cambridge/Peterborough outer suburban services , a bodged combination of electric units to Hitchin and Royston , and DMUs and HSTs over the non-electric gap , was brought together at the end of the decade , courtesy of two collections of four-car 317s , a purpose-built second batch of twenty-five units , and thirteen of the earlier series . |
| 7 | A presidential authorization for a covert operation , a ‘ mini-finding ’ , was rushed out at the end of November , so secretly that hardly anyone knew of it ; this made good what had happened already , which was not supposed to have happened at all . |
| 8 | Pop having to return to Burma for another year with the Governor , and finally my going to meet him in Liverpool when he was sent home at the end of that year very sick , never to return to Burma . |