Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josh and Becky were still at the doors , greeting people they knew . |
| 2 | The Asiz were already at the scene of the accident , and the arrival of the company 's interpreter did much to help communication between the Asiz , the local fire brigade and the British Sergeant . |
| 3 | But Dr Greenslade was not at the Easter Fete . |
| 4 | By the middle of the following week , however , she was really missing her trips to the pool and she decided that on Wednesday afternoon , which was one of the afternoons when David was n't at the factory , she would take a chance and go for a swim . |
| 5 | In one of her favourites , she and Simon were down at the Lock , picnicking on one of the half-buried concrete blocks . |
| 6 | Because the local representative of Burra and Trondra was not at the February meeting , the matter was deferred until March , when again the councillor for the area failed to attend , resulting in yet another deferral . |
| 7 | Sam was going to a tutorial college , where the staff tended to keep a close eye on their pupils , being moderately well paid to do so , while Camille was still at a local comprehensive where the teachers no longer cared much about anything . |
| 8 | Mick was still at the stove . |
| 9 | Ruth was completely at a loss . |
| 10 | Despite this bad start , this was to be the only meeting the unit was to have with Müncheberg 's Messerschmitts , for their time in Sicily was almost at an end . |
| 11 | By the time Maisie and he got clear of the crowd , Aziz and Hasan were almost at the other side of the Common . |
| 12 | Harbury and Linda Finch were together at a table when she got there . |
| 13 | BR and ASLEF were still at the old game and each other 's throats , with rebel train drivers complicating the whole thing . |
| 14 | By Monday evening the Wycliffes were back at The Watch House , their home outside the city where he had his headquarters , and on Tuesday morning he was in his office . |
| 15 | Hazel was more at a loss than ever . |
| 16 | BOGUS aristocrat Rosemary Aberdour was back at the Old Bailey yesterday in danger of having her sentence for stealing £2.7 million from a hospital charity increased . |
| 17 | However , I can debate with anyone and at any stage that Gibson was right at the time for the Dams . |
| 18 | He was immediately enthralled : ‘ I do n't think there was a moment after that … when the wish to work at the House of Commons was n't at the back of my mind . ’ |
| 19 | Silver was almost at the crest when suddenly , from half-way up , there came a high screaming — the sound a rabbit makes , not to call for help or to frighten an enemy , but simply out of terror . |
| 20 | But there was no time to give this disturbing idea attention ; Tealtaoich was nearly at the Trees and the Trees were grouped together watching him and waiting for him in complete silence and it was important not to miss a single instant of any of it . |
| 21 | The Admirable Crichton was on at the Royalty , the Three Ragtime Boys at the Alhambra , and at A. E. Pickard Unlimited 's Panopticon ( Doors open at six during the Spring holiday ) , there was ‘ Fancy Fair and the Laughter Mirrors ’ . |
| 22 | Another surprise of the evening was that Anne 's groom-to-be Commander Tim Laurence was not at the dinner . |
| 23 | Mr Sugar was not at the house yesterday but it is believed his wife , Ann , was at home as a woman had driven a sports car into the grounds earlier , which bore the registration 1 AS . |
| 24 | It was not yet ten o'clock , so presumably Dominic and Lee were still at The Crown . |
| 25 | Karaz Angkor was then at the zenith of its power . |
| 26 | Sir Daniel was already at the door , shrugging into his heavy black overcoat with its expensive sheen and elegantly cut lines , and he looked at them both with only the faintest narrowing of his eyes altering his expression of bland good will . |
| 27 | We arrived very late and , through some misunderstanding , Gilbert was not at the station to meet us . |
| 28 | But any flowers there might have been in the garden would probably have been eaten by the resident goats , rabbits and God-knows-whatever-else were around at the time , for the kind-hearted Edwardses never turned any sick or homeless creature away . |
| 29 | Radio broadcaster Jimmy Young was also at the Palace collecting a CBE before rushing off to prepare for his Budget special programme on Radio 2 later . |
| 30 | Seeing the young woman hunched up on a crate , covered in chalk dust and weeping her eyes out , Biff Thacker was rather at a loss what to do . |