Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were just like that when I were at home on me own at night , John used to play dominoes on a Friday night , the kids were in bed I 'd be in and out of kitchen |
| 2 | ‘ Did you know that he and I were at school together ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Rory 's a chap Bootsy and I were at school with , ’ she said . |
| 4 | See I 've got to remember , you see a few of them I had a load of them all talking , you know when I were at school ? |
| 5 | When I was at university ( actually a rather seedy teacher training college in south-east London ) nobody could afford to run a car . |
| 6 | When I was at university , we fulfilled expectations in every way by occupying the refectory to get the Americans out of Vietnam . |
| 7 | ‘ When I was at university , doing my professional training or in the early years of practice , I always worked with women women solicitors , women bankers and so on . |
| 8 | I was at university and it was in recess and we were having a social evening in a village hall and I was staying with a friend . |
| 9 | ‘ I was at university with Jamel Mobuto . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose I first started thinking about this when I was at university in the late '70s : that getting rid of a set of prejudices about women had only reinforced a whole bunch of prejudices about men . |
| 11 | WHEN I WAS at university in 1981–84 , the contempt , intolerance and oppression of men and their sexuality was revolting . |
| 12 | ‘ I was at university before . ’ |
| 13 | But I was at university in the early '60s , and I could see that even my sister 's generation , 10 years later , was much bolder about this eternal exhausting , juggling compromise of home and work . ’ |
| 14 | I was at university and then learning the business I had inherited . |
| 15 | ‘ I was at university and then in the Home Office for a time . ’ |
| 16 | I remember when I was at university in Padua we went to see the basilica there . |
| 17 | I was at University at the time ( showing me age ) at Keele which is right by Stoke-on-Trent ( except no-one knows where the bloody Trent is ) . |
| 18 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 19 | I got all these things early cos when I was at granny and grandpa 's they gave me some money . |
| 20 | I hate that , I really do , thank God I 'm at boarding school cos I hate , the worst bit is like when they get , I remember when I was at day school and them coming home from the parents ' evening and I was |
| 21 | ‘ They 've also managed to get into my house while I was at work . |
| 22 | Mrs Glews : Well I was at work at Grainger and Smith 's offices . |
| 23 | He looked after Lucy during the day while I was at work , but I found out afterwards that he used to leave her a lot with my friends upstairs . |
| 24 | I have n't actually seen Charley since his return , as he called on Hamish while I was at work , but at lunchtime today I conveyed your presents for Christopher and Lydie to Jenners Rose Street restaurant and placed them in Inga 's hands ( a handy reminder to me of their birthdays , too ) . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've told you ; I knew nothing about what had happened until I was at work next morning and one of your policemen came with the news . ’ |
| 26 | Well I know that if I was at work . |
| 27 | Well you must have been going during the day while I was at work then . |
| 28 | I 'm not because I was at work last week and they got |
| 29 | I told you all I was at liberty to and thought you had accepted it . ’ |
| 30 | I was at sea as an officer in the Navy by my seventeenth birthday . |