Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Two spoiled griffin-heads were found at the Samian Heraion , showing that they were made there , as no doubt they were at Olympia too . |
6 | Did you use a bike all the time you were at Rhos-y-Bol ? |
7 | Last time we were at Lane Notts were leading by two goals to nil over Pisa but the Italians have got one back . |
8 | 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 . |