Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josh and Becky were still at the doors , greeting people they knew . |
| 2 | This in in sharp contrast to the 1970s and most of the 1980s when the UGT and CCOO were bitterly at odds . |
| 3 | The Asiz were already at the scene of the accident , and the arrival of the company 's interpreter did much to help communication between the Asiz , the local fire brigade and the British Sergeant . |
| 4 | As early as 1249 , when England and Scotland were nominally at peace and recognized each other as separate kingdoms , a commission of English and Scottish knights framed a code of Laws and Customs of the Marches for use in local and national disputes and transgressions , though it was to be honoured more in the breach than in the observance . |
| 5 | When Frances arrived at her new home , to be followed weeks later by her children and their nanny , she had every hope that the children would be relatively unaffected by her marital breakdown , especially as Sarah and Jane were away at boarding-school . |
| 6 | The Lamonts were n't at home . |
| 7 | When Frederick attacked the Empress Maria Theresa in 1740 to snatch the province of Silesia from her , Britain and Spain were already at war , and there were two or three areas where France and Britain were likely to clash , though Macaulay was quite right to underline the world-wide dimensions of the struggle . |
| 8 | Despite Swansea lodging a protest , the FA yesterday ruled that Exeter were not at fault for the abandonment . |
| 9 | In one of her favourites , she and Simon were down at the Lock , picnicking on one of the half-buried concrete blocks . |
| 10 | By the time Maisie and he got clear of the crowd , Aziz and Hasan were almost at the other side of the Common . |
| 11 | Harbury and Linda Finch were together at a table when she got there . |
| 12 | There , at least , the new novelists — secular though they were — and Christian revivalists like Tolkien were altogether at one ; and Lord of the Flies and The Lord of the Rings , which coincidentally appeared in the same year , share that large element in common . |
| 13 | The beliefs of this group centred on Downing Street were completely at odds with the ideas of most of the Great and Good whom , indeed , they regarded as a symptom of the problem . |
| 14 | THE visit to the Alhambra next day was not the joy Maggie had hoped it would be , at least not initially , because Candace and Peter Rainford were there at breakfast and even more resolute in their determination to join Felipe 's party . |
| 15 | BR and ASLEF were still at the old game and each other 's throats , with rebel train drivers complicating the whole thing . |
| 16 | By Monday evening the Wycliffes were back at The Watch House , their home outside the city where he had his headquarters , and on Tuesday morning he was in his office . |
| 17 | Time was when pace bowlers in Dacca and Hyderabad were about at thick on the ground as breweries ; when those renowned speed merchants Asif Iqbal and Majid Khan propelled the new ball at Headingley ; when the aim , above all , was to limit damage , not inflict it . |
| 18 | It was not yet ten o'clock , so presumably Dominic and Lee were still at The Crown . |
| 19 | Army sources claimed that a further 12 officers and 289 others were in prison awaiting trial and that four officers and three NCOs were still at large . |
| 20 | Between 1468 and 1718 Turkey and Venice were officially at war seven times , the period of hostilities totalling forty-two years . |
| 21 | He and Pilger were now at each other 's throats , with the showdown already on the horizon — the dummy edition of Sunday 7 December . |
| 22 | Anne and Maureen were already at home . |
| 23 | Trish and Brian were out at work . |
| 24 | The larger purposes of God were not at risk of dying of thirst in the desert after all . |
| 25 | But any flowers there might have been in the garden would probably have been eaten by the resident goats , rabbits and God-knows-whatever-else were around at the time , for the kind-hearted Edwardses never turned any sick or homeless creature away . |
| 26 | Partisanship at such a time could be unwise , she knew , and the sooner she and Anne were back at Framlingham , the better for them both . |
| 27 | ‘ Southampton were down at the bottom , but they rolled up their sleeves , put a run together and that 's what we now have to do . |
| 28 | Although France and Great Britain were technically at peace , constant clashes occurred between their forces both on sea and on land . |
| 29 | Of course native Siberians sometimes fought among themselves , just as the various national and religious communities of Europe were often at each other 's throats . |
| 30 | Bruno and Lewis were both at ringside to witness Bowe 's stunning points win over Holyfield . |