Example sentences of "[was/were] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | No , yo you were at the juniors . |
2 | It was as we started our second run and we were at the lights at the corner of Portman Square , that I saw the cops had concentrated themselves on the traffic island in Baker Street . |
3 | ‘ And you were at the Houses . |
4 | While we were at the Clothes Show , we noticed some fabulous haircuts and even more exciting styling ideas . |
5 | When I were at the parents ' evening I said does that mean er he never sits still and he 's always tearing about and |
6 | ‘ Like you were at the tables last night and the night before that ? ’ |
7 | At its very inception , the world was hot , but within a billion years of its origin , parts of it at least were at the kinds of temperatures in which complex organic chemistry could take place . |
8 | The books were at the auditors and I did n't want to hold up the minutes and , as you 'd all mostly seen them anyway , I felt that perhaps I could let them go . |
9 | Gorbachev on Dec. 4 had announced to the USSR Supreme Soviet emergency plans to import basic foodstuffs to the value of 2,100 million roubles ( US$1,050 million at the new commercial exchange rate ) to ensure that supplies in the first quarter of 1991 were at the levels of the same period in 1990 . |
10 | Manager Dick Graham brought Jackie Bannister to Selhurst Park on a free transfer from Scunthorpe United in July 1965 , having assessed this combative wing-half or full-back at close quarters when the pair were at The Hawthorns in the early 1960s , and Jackie certainly became a valued member of Palace 's 2nd Division defences under Mr Graham in the second half of that decade , missing only one game in two seasons between August 1966 and May 1968 . |
11 | The two slaves moved jerkily , as if they were at the ends of strings . |
12 | At the end of August , the first German warplanes bombed Paris and also distributed leaflets warning Parisians to surrender : the Germans were at the gates . |
13 | We were at the gates , huge wrought-iron things , open , with great brick gateposts . |
14 | By this time , we were at the boats . |
15 | ‘ You were at the nuns ’ school ? |
16 | " Who else was at the scenes " |
17 | It was at the menders ' yesterday . |
18 | And it was at the trekkers ' hut eight days before that we 'd met our porters with their dzos , Dzos — pronounced ‘ Joes ’ — are great hairy pack animals , a cross between yaks and cows . |
19 | Although I met Theresa on the way back from erm school and she said Alec was at the doctors cos not the way back from school , way back from the library . |
20 | And she said Alec was at the doctors cos he was feeling under the weather . |
21 | Her time was at the delegates ' disposal . |
22 | Sister Robinson was at the nurses ' station , talking to one of the first-year nurses , when Juliet arrived back on the ward . |
23 | It was at the mechanics was n't it ? |
24 | I was at the Combeses ' yesterday , and the Hammonds were there . |
25 | Angry as he was at the directors for failing to appreciate his talents and not understanding what he was driving at , Dustin was angrier with himself for losing jobs . |
26 | Husband Don was at the births . |
27 | The major leak erm was at the Scouts ' hut , where erm the , the building was actually putting pressure upon the water main , and er causing a leak . |
28 | The likes of Polanski , Nicholson and Hopper all talked freedom — even if it was at the movies — and that was music to the ears of those who followed the anti-war , hippie-inspired trend of throwing off inhibitions , of which there were plenty of public demonstrations when the beautiful people gathered , be it Los Angeles , New York , London or Paris . |
29 | Well not cos I felt like it but I was at the lights in Bromley this bloke , this , was stand- , sort of kept staring at my front passenger side wheel . |
30 | They both watched Mallachy , who was at the sailboards . |