Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] present at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and I were present at the recent opening of its new school building , for which I had the pleasure of being the Minister responsible for making available the necessary resources . |
| 2 | I was present at the sale and bought a set of Keesing 's Contemporary Archives which have proved invaluable though I have used them with the usual misgivings that accompany the enjoyment of a benefit which has been denied to others . |
| 3 | I was present at the public meeting at Hutchison Crossway on 26 Nov. and I made some comments , warmly welcoming the proposals and asking about the upgrading of a parallel cycle route . |
| 4 | Opposition Members and all the organisations which were present at the proceedings were under the clear impression that all affirmative orders would be the subject of a separate debate so that these very important matters could be gone through line by line , if necessary . |
| 5 | Goulding himself was present at the Wolfe Tone Societies meeting in Maghera in 1966 . |
| 6 | Prince himself was present at the opening . |
| 7 | According to very senior sources who were present at the final session of the summit , what actually happened was subtly different from the PR people 's version . |
| 8 | Men from Wadenhoe who were present at the next Northamptonshire Forest Eyre in 1255 were committed to prison , and the whole township was adjudged to be ‘ in grievous mercy ’ . |
| 9 | For instance we had no place to keep our er records , we had er minute books er we used to receive minutes from the management for example , after our monthly meeting with them , er and they were more or less dictated by the er personnel department , who were present at the meeting . |
| 10 | The veterans have become increasingly alarmed at the incidence of illness — especially cancers amongst the 20,000 who were present at the tests . |
| 11 | Those of you who were present at the AGM will be aware that we have been told by the GAP that the Society 's grant will be drastically reduced during the next few years and will cease after 1991 . |
| 12 | Another thing about Steven Hughes Conference is that he knows what he 's talking about , on on shop floor iss issues like health and safety and those colleagues who were present at the launch of the G M B's National Health and Safety Campaign will confirm that especially the way he described the Chief Executive of the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 13 | She was present at the birth of the Blessed Virgin , who was then given over to her care for twelve years , and at the Visitation and the birth of St John the Baptist and even at the birth of the Saviour , when she was allowed to provide bedding for the Virgin and swathing-clothes for the Child . |
| 14 | As a result she was present at the important council meetings at the end of the year and it would be surprising if her voice was not heard in the discussions about the future of Aquitaine — all the more so since she could be expected to have some influence over her children , and particularly over Richard . |
| 15 | Blackburn Rovers striker Alan , 22 , who was present at the birth , said : ‘ It was important for me to be there . |
| 16 | ‘ We ca n't tell clubs and players what to do ; that would be unrealistic in any international sport ’ , said Davies , who was present at the Bledisloe Cup series in Australia . |
| 17 | What is in that file is not as yet available to journalists , but apparently it contains an affidavit by an ex-policeman who was present at the discovery of the treasure . |
| 18 | As Philip Gibbs , correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph who was present at the battles as an observer , wrote : ‘ The suffering of all the German troops , huddled together in exposed places , must be as hideous as anything in the agony of mankind , slashed to bits by storms of shells and urged forward to counter-attacks which they know will be their death . ’ |
| 19 | The Prince was furious at this intrusion into his private life and authorized his friend , Lord Tryon , who was present at the picnic to shout a four letter word at the journalists concerned . |
| 20 | He worked closely with the composer in Sonatas Nos. 3 , 4 , 5 and 6 who was present at the sessions , close to the piano , conducting the changes of tempo . |
| 21 | Josephus , who was present at the siege , refers to them as Sicarii . |
| 22 | I have heard her voice and spoken to her lover and been walking with the Masai who was present at the farcical and tragic lion hunt . |
| 23 | The pursuer 's son , who was present at the meeting , said that he would instruct Messrs Ferguson & Forster to submit a formal offer to the defender 's solicitors , Messrs Macfie & Alexander . |
| 24 | The incident was not reported in the press and probably would have gone no further than the arrest and trial of the Falangist aggressors , had not protests from Generals Galarza and Varela ( who was present at the mass ) threatened to turn it into a major governmental crisis . |
| 25 | They were present at the first national meeting of indigenous press that we organised in June 1991 , and armed men visit the premises of Etnias magazine without warning . |
| 26 | Everybody was present at the meal ? ’ |
| 27 | Nor does the chronicler say whether he was present at the nose-pulling . |
| 28 | Actively involved in the dissolution of the monasteries , he was present at the execution of the prior of Lenton and two monks in 1538 . |
| 29 | He was present at the funeral of Edward VI , but lived in quiet retirement during Mary I 's reign . |
| 30 | He was present at the surrender of Dunbar in May 1296 , which marked the victorious conclusion of Edward 's first campaign , but his main work continued to be high-level diplomacy . |