Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] were at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turkey , incidentally , just for pig-iron and incorrigible spite , look like ten times the side they were at Lansdowne , just when we need them to be sullen , depressed , and cruising for a bruising . |
| 2 | They 're celebrating their centenary this year … not much of a party so far … the club are short of money and struggling near the bottom of the table … they have n't won a game in two months … on Saturday they were at home to Yeovil … |
| 3 | On the next Monday they were at Easton and Noreen was last in the band call . |
| 4 | Unlike their predecessors they were at home in French , now establishing itself as the pre-eminent diplomatic language , and cultivated contacts with foreigners . |
| 5 | By next night they were at Skirling , near Broughton , and here trouble broke out between Douglases and Hamiltons of the Regent 's contingent , ever a danger in Scottish feudal hosts where clan loyalties and feuds often created tensions . |
| 6 | It was a night for the homeless to lie down and die ; and for luckier people to sit close to their fires and thank God they were at home . |
| 7 | The next year we were at Muirfield and I also did the Canada Cup with Peter the following year , 1960 , and here he broke the news to me that he wanted to use his regular St Andrews caddie Wal Gillespie for the 1960 Open . |
| 8 | After Munich in a very short year we were at war , and by all accounts it was a very different manner of acceptance of war than we are told of the 1914 war . |
| 9 | Two spoiled griffin-heads were found at the Samian Heraion , showing that they were made there , as no doubt they were at Olympia too . |
| 10 | Did you use a bike all the time you were at Rhos-y-Bol ? |
| 11 | Last time we were at Lane Notts were leading by two goals to nil over Pisa but the Italians have got one back . |
| 12 | It 's all a far cry from the last time they were at Heathrow — that was in July when they returned to Russia after a three-month holiday in Worcestershire . |
| 13 | ‘ Then other men came and other eagles , and seeing the Stones they were at peace there and did not harm each other . ’ |