Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skills that were needed to make intricate patterns by manipulating bobbins and pins at speed were learned at an early age . |
| 2 | The words were flung at her like an accusation of felony . |
| 3 | The last words were shrieked at him as Doreen worked herself into a frenzy of rage which caused her to tremble violently . |
| 4 | The words were propelled at them like stones from a sling : a direct hit would have killed a bear . |
| 5 | Successors were appointed at the end of October 1989 to the heads of Italy 's two largest state enterprises , Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale ( IRI ) and Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi ( ENI ) . |
| 6 | Pets were looked at , never touched . |
| 7 | In the late 1870s and 1880s a whole succession of attractive stations with complex roof-lines and towers with conical caps were built at towns like Craigleith ( 1872 ) , Streetsville ( 1879 ) , Smithville , Grimsby ( 1882 ) , Whitby , and Don ( 1899 ) , among many others . |
| 8 | On 10 October two cylinders were seized at Frankfurt airport which contained several grammes of caesium-137 and 5 grammes of strontium respectively ; three days , later 2.2 kilos of enriched uranium were seized in Munich . |
| 9 | Her legs were crossed at the knee , and she was wearing her new wedge-heeled shoes . |
| 10 | The backs of my legs were trembling at that time , but this was probably as much due to the cold as to the feeling of betrayal that had invaded my being . |
| 11 | Many Koreans were affronted at the liberation of August 1945 being followed by the continued presence of Japanese and of the odious methods they had employed to suppress dissent . |
| 12 | No sooner had the excitement died down in Coventry than champagne corks were popping at Courtaulds Fibres in Grimsby . |
| 13 | I wanted to know how many different styles were represented at any one time ? |
| 14 | Revolutionary Iran responded with the familiar accusation that the superpowers were uniting at the expense of Iran to secure their own interests . |
| 15 | Forty primary and twenty secondary schools were selected at random from those thus eligible . |
| 16 | Over 40 fully booked Schools were run at Barnham Broom and in Southern Europe in 1990 . |
| 17 | A total of 23 pupils from the Simmonswood and Kirkby C of E Schools were treated at Liverpool 's Alder Hey Hospital , with five detained overnight . |
| 18 | In order to investigate the latter , five schools were chosen at random and from these a random sample of non-respondents ( N = 11 ) was asked to complete the questionnaire orally . |
| 19 | By the end of the 1960s , most comprehensive schools were offering at least the core of a common curriculum to most of the pupils in Year One . |
| 20 | These embolic signals were noted at the very frequent rate of 4.8/min during the 20 min recording time . |
| 21 | A neat stone arch and a flight of steps were built at the entrance and these have survived . |
| 22 | First steps were taken at the HSE conference in Jakarta . |
| 23 | The Headquarter was originally at Rugby Cement Works where disused offices were placed at our disposal , but later as the unit increased this was moved to the Church rooms , and the unit was commanded by Captain Sammy Wenham . |
| 24 | Offices were established at the destination points to provide a service for the international traveller . |
| 25 | To this a variety of solutions were given at different times . |
| 26 | Quasi-periodic solutions were found at sufficiently small a , and chaotic solutions developed after a sequence of period doublings as f is increased when a = 0.05 ( see Fig. 2.23 ) . |
| 27 | The development officers clearly fulfilled the objectives established for them : they assessed their clients ’ needs , negotiated with other service-providers to obtain increased support from existing sources , they recruited local support workers for all clients whom they assessed as needing enhanced care ; this enhanced support was obtained quickly and with few difficulties , and clearly several very dependent clients were sustained at home as a result of this care . |
| 28 | On the return train journey to Sunderland , they were told that a group of journalists were waiting at Sunderland station , forcing the two players to decamp at Durham and sneak home via the back door . |
| 29 | Prototype units were designed at the international workshops and discussed and modified in the field for the APSP was far more decentralised than the Mathematics programme . |
| 30 | Tissue and blood were stored at -70:C until DNA extraction . |