Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there . |
| 2 | We 've looked Strategic sites were looked at after that event of December the eighth . |
| 3 | Declining mine output in Anglesey , opposition by Birmingham consumers , and an improving international copper market prevented the monopoly persisting , but Williams continued to influence the industry strongly till his death , and his activities were looked at by the select committee on the copper trade of 1799 . |
| 4 | When they were looked at in more detail it was found that the colonies grew from one single tube ( sicula ) which is often facing in a different direction from the tubes inhabited by the rest of the colony ( see below ) . |
| 5 | Three techniques were looked at in outline : Network Analysis , Simulation , and Inventory Control . |
| 6 | Er , the forty , fifty sites in and around the urban area , and in villages were looked at in detail , as Mr Frost said , by tramping around in terms of of of I think er twelve criterium , although the part of er York City Council 's erm er evidence . |
| 7 | Amidst worrying indicators that the US recovery may have stalled again — there was a disconcerting fall in capital goods orders in the first quarter , IBM Corp shares are on the slide again , and they were trading at around the $47 mark yesterday ; the 52-week low was $46.375 on January 21 , the lowest since 1975 . |
| 8 | Back then , those things which could n't be said were hinted at in the grain of those luscious voices . |
| 9 | Teachers in today 's schools and colleges have to concern themselves with a bewildering multiplicity of factors ; some of them were hinted at in preceding chapters and there are more that were ignored because they were not directly relevant to our theme . |
| 10 | Tracy'd 've loved it out there with their books , what was that one we were looking at with |
| 11 | I mean , with the Y equals one over X that we were looking at on Friday . |
| 12 | Okay then , back to the video we were looking at before break . |
| 13 | fact it might be apposite this year to suggest to them that they might like to introduce one or other of the things that we were looking at in there . |
| 14 | Wandsworth and Pentonville , in London , with rather less capacity , were built at about the same time to serve what was then the largest city in the world . |
| 15 | A bus company has halted evening services to an estate after its drivers were shot at with airguns and catapults . |
| 16 | Since at heart these men were friendly to the Slav cause , Allied propaganda claimed that those who were posted to the east were always stationed in the most exposed positions , and at the slightest sign of wavering , or what might be termed ‘ treason ’ , were shot at from the rear . |
| 17 | Israeli security sources said the two Israeli civilians were driving towards Kiryat Arba near the Palestinian city of Hebron when they were shot at from a car . |
| 18 | And possibly it was just a coincidence that Cannistraro 's revelations , fully in keeping with the CIA 's tradition of conducting America 's secret business in public , were made at about the same time that his former colleagues in the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to discredit Lester Coleman as an obstacle to general acceptance of the Libyan/Air Malta explanation of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 19 | Four of these , all of 30–40 acres , had been allowed to go out of cultivation and the houses left desolate ; owned by four different people , they were valued at from 8d. to 1s. per acre . |
| 20 | Three guerrillas were executed at about the same time for offences against civilians , according to the INPFL newspaper Scorpion on Aug. 2 . |
| 21 | Such conclusions were arrived at by studying the fossilized limb proportions and limb-joint morphology of dinosaurs rather than footprint tracks , although some of these tracks , as we shall see , show speeds a lot faster than those Beverly Halstead was talking about . |
| 22 | It is tedious enough to have to append footnotes to certain records springing from the county game , explaining that they were arrived at by contrived cricket . |
| 23 | Notwithstanding the best efforts of the distinguished panel , the findings were arrived at after a one-sided presentation of evidence and argument . |
| 24 | Er that the fires were set at about the time that the erm er that the armoured began breaching the walls of the compound . |
| 25 | Coun Dryden did not attend last night 's meeting but his views were echoed at by Labour colleague Coun Dave Ross , who said he could not support the cuts before leaving the meeting . |
| 26 | Although we were sneered at by the arts and humanities students , those of us who were doing business studies felt , quite reasonably , that we were closer to the spirit of the age than the old hippies of the faculty . |
| 27 | At the same time the government cancelled the debts existing between state controlled companies , which were estimated at between $3,000 million and $4,500 million . |
| 28 | When asked what happened , 62% said they were touched in a sensual way ; 42% experienced someone touching their sex organs ; 33% were masturbated ; 28% were forced to show their sex organs to another person ; 25% were shown another person 's sex organs ; 24% touched another person 's sex organs ; 21% were talked to about sex in an erotic way ; 21% were shown pornographic material ; 16% took part in oral sex ; 10% were flashed at in a public place ; 5% were involved in sexual intercourse ( sometimes including anal sex ) ; and 3% were involved in kissing in a sensual way . |
| 29 | We were fired at on 3 separate occasions . |
| 30 | They were working at about the same time as Turner and Constable and shared those artists ’ concerns in relation to painting directly from nature , which Dahl described as Naturvei — nature 's Way . |