Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The backs of my legs were trembling at that time , but this was probably as much due to the cold as to the feeling of betrayal that had invaded my being . |
| 2 | I wanted to know how many different styles were represented at any one time ? |
| 3 | The NKLP had been formed in August 1946 with the unification of the Korean Communist Party and the Yenan Independence Alliance ; numerous small left-wing parties were absorbed at that time or subsequently . |
| 4 | The Pacifics were used at this time on the Nottingham to Marylebone semi-fasts but they were to be transferred away as the rundown of the GC got underway . |
| 5 | This was a small group of people who appointed their own chairman and secretary , and whose task was to see that the signs LADIES and GENTLEMEN were posted at all the appropriate places in the many buildings used by the conference . |
| 6 | Whether or not the speakers were employed at all was also taken into account , since employment will almost always involve fairly extended interaction with non-black individuals . |
| 7 | Weights were placed at all the corners of the sketches to stop them springing back into tight rolls . |
| 8 | Subsequent work by David Foulkes and others , showed that the very striking differences between experience during REM bursts and REM quiescence was not as great when subjects were questioned at any length , rather than being allowed to make spontaneous reports of what had been going on in their minds . |
| 9 | It sounded childish , she knew , but she was unable to prevent the tiny gasps of pleasure as her eyes were assailed at each new turn by ever more glorious sights . |
| 10 | Let's not forget that even if no more children 's books were published at all , each year would still see the arrival of a new cohort of children and their parents and grandparents , who for the first time start to contemplate buying books which are relevant for a child of that age . |
| 11 | Claire and Kezia were looking at each other and saying nothing . |
| 12 | Again the two brothers were pushing at each other and as they all mounted the steps Ellen stepped and walked by the side of her son , something she was in the habit of doing whenever they were in company , and which Joe had been aware of from the time she had recovered after his uncle 's death . |
| 13 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 14 | According to Dexter , ‘ much time was spent on a detailed review of the Old Trafford Test and disappointment was expressed at some elements of England 's performance . |
| 15 | The future policy of the Association was discussed at these meetings . |
| 16 | Here police monitoring of the large crowds was facilitated by ‘ sophisticated radio equipment supplied by the Army , hot lines to the White House and the Pentagon , and an 8 by 12-foot map of the city , complete with a zoom-lens television camera for closeups , that could show where every police officer and other security force was located at all times ’ ( Farber , 1988:159 ) . |
| 17 | Although other burials clustered around the enclosure , the internal area was respected , until the whole monument was dismantled at some time in the fourth century . |
| 18 | John 's obsession for uniformity was thwarted at this point as the experience of the older Girls always showed in their eye make-up . |
| 19 | Her love of coaching was developing at this stage too . |
| 20 | Its opposition was overruled at this stage however by a majority of the Member States , who agreed to start work on EMU and Political Union in two parallel inter-governmental conferences , which opened at Rome in December 1990 . |
| 21 | No record of such an interview was presented at any of the previous hearings , it seems . |
| 22 | In this instance the case was dismissed but the fact that such action was taken at all was profoundly significant . |
| 23 | That is , assuming formal church marriage was intended at all . |
| 24 | Undaunted , his lower leg and ankle in plaster , Hoppy led what was left of his battalion across mountainous jungle terrain teeming with enemy units to Imphal , where the battalion was re-formed at less than half strength . |
| 25 | The wide belt of dune-land with its hummocks and scrubby grass growing out of the sand was deserted at that hour . |
| 26 | A great deal of work was done at that time in enlarging and landscaping the park , creating lakes and the kitchen gardens . |
| 27 | Oh , they stayed just the same as they are today , yo you carried on just the same , only the difference in them now , race days years ago , the heath was shut at half past nine . |
| 28 | The flat area to the south was drained at some time in the eighteenth century and a canal was built across it . |
| 29 | Although , the increase in biliary bicarbonate was observed at all intracerebroventricular doses of neuropeptide Y , no dose-related response of bilary bicarbonate was shown , presumably because of the inherent variability in normal bile bicarbonate concentration . |
| 30 | May and she she an old boy come in in the week , Carole had Friday afternoon off an old boy was knocking at all these doors and something to do with erm put a tape recorder in your house |