Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UN protection force , Unprofor , and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had called for an air corridor after reports that refugees in Srebrenica were dying at a rate of 20 a day from exposure and starvation . |
| 2 | Norman Tebbit and Cecil Parkinson were speaking at a meeting of the ‘ Conservative Way Forward ’ , a group of irreconcilables whose toast was to the Queen over the water . |
| 3 | Iris and Jack were seated at a table with a book of glossy coloured plates lying open in front of them . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's very good of you to include me , ’ she said when she , Iris and Jack were installed at a table , sipping apéritifs and making a show of studying the menu . |
| 5 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |
| 6 | He and Minter were huddled at a table in the narrow bay window of the Grapes public bar , overlooked and unattended as the lunchtime rush gathered pace and noise , cocooned from the gossip and laughter that swirled about them . |
| 7 | The Shadow Health Minister and labrador Offa were waiting at a Blackpool rank when Brian pulled up in his Ford Orion . |
| 8 | PLANS for a major new initiative to help reconstruct the economy of Surrey , Sussex and Kent were revealed at a meeting of civic and business leaders . |
| 9 | On 29 October representatives of Norwich were informed at a meeting of Mr. Wells ' opinion and grounds for it and that the board of Lautro would meet on the following day to consider a written report by Mr. Wells upon the business undertaken by Winchester . |
| 10 | On 29 October representatives of Norwich were informed at a meeting of Mr. Wells ' opinion and grounds for it and that the board of Lautro would meet on the following day to consider a written report by Mr. Wells upon the business undertaken by Winchester . |
| 11 | Their hopes of starting from scratch with a leisure complex incorporating a racecourse at Thurrock in Essex were dashed at a public inquiry two years ago . |
| 12 | Debbie and her husband Leslie were working at a Kuwait hotel when Saddam Hussein 's troops invaded in August 1990 . |
| 13 | Wounds temporarily licked , Michael and the winsomely wondrous Mrs Fallon were photographed at a Tory bash with other black-tied pall-bearers of the local Conservative Association . |
| 14 | Paul Lexington and Bobby Anscombe were sitting at a table in the middle of the room , engaged in a fiercely whispered conversation . |