Example sentences of "was [vb pp] a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was given a scan at the hospital 's radiology department and once his treatment was finished he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 2 | Instead of working from home or at the DEA office , Coleman was given a desk at the Eurame Trading Company Ltd. , a DEA/CIA ‘ front ’ newly set up by the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad in a luxury three-bedroomed penthouse apartment down the street from the US Embassy . |
| 3 | Marko Radoman , 103 , and a veteran of both Balkan wars , was given a place at the front as one of the few with personal memories of Nicholas 's reign . |
| 4 | On his retirement on 8 April 1874 , Phillips was granted a pension at the rate of his full salary of £750 , for his ‘ peculiar and exceptional services ’ . |
| 5 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 6 | At the National Eisteddfod held in the Albert Hall in 1909 he was again awarded the chair for an outstanding awdl ( ode ) on ‘ Gwlad y Bryniau ’ ( The Land of the Hills ) , and soon after his return home he was appointed a cataloguer at the newly founded National Library of Wales . |
| 7 | In September 1858 he patented a process for preparing chlorine using calcium chromate , for which he was awarded a medal at the 1862 international exhibition . |
| 8 | He was admitted a student at the Middle Temple on 19 February 1597 and was called to the bar on 19 April 1605 . |
| 9 | His elder son was created a baronet at the Restoration in 1660 , and the younger entered Parliament for Bletchingley as an exclusionist . |