Example sentences of "[det] were [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were tearing at the glass , others struggling with the doors , but none of them could get out . |
| 2 | These were joined at the site by the Stockport contingent — a large assembly of local dignitaries , together with the builders and two bands . |
| 3 | These were recorded at the Capitol Tower in Hollywood , where Buck was a session guitarist prior to the blossoming of his own career in the early '60s . |
| 4 | Ah , but the district council had caused letter boxed to be melted down and fashioned into stainless steel tree holders , at a great deal too much extra cost , and these were positioned at every dog-relief point so the housewives could be held in suspension at any point in the area and time . |
| 5 | While loss of learning ability among the elderly appeared primarily linked to difficulties in understanding , recall , and error abandonment , if these were corrected at an early stage ‘ old people can learn much more readily than is commonly supposed ’ ( Welford 1966 : 5 ) . |
| 6 | These were pitched at a number of different levels . |
| 7 | Co-incidentally these were held at the Birmingham Indoor Arena , the set of the TV programme ‘ The Gladiators ’ . |
| 8 | ( These were paid at a rate of 12p per mile with 100 per cent of the extra cost paid in the first year ; 75 per cent in the second ; 50 per cent in the third ; 25 per cent in the fourth and nothing thereafter . ) |
| 9 | Special diets were allowed for sick inmates and these were allocated at the discretion of the medical officer : |
| 10 | All were treated at the Berkshire base 's medical centre , but were not seriously affected . |
| 11 | The Essex group consists of 17 Young Farmers Clubs , and all were represented at the show . |
| 12 | All were used at the time of the Edgar " Ordo " . |
| 13 | Scotland , compared to England and Wales , has relatively few medieval churches but , precisely because so many were destroyed at the time of the Reformation , Scotland is rich in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ecclesiastical architecture . |
| 14 | Koirala told parliament on March 9 that more than 20,000 Bhutanese refugees had arrived in Nepal since July 1991 and more were arriving at the rate of 200 a day . |
| 15 | Four more were recruited at a meeting in December . |
| 16 | Four more were recruited at a meeting in December . |
| 17 | Only the hide-covered penthouse was occupied , and the three men in that were jammed at the opposite end , craning to watch the brilliant theatre ; the exchange at the gates upon which their survival depended . |
| 18 | Both were constructed at the Chrzanow Locomotive Works in Poland , one in 1954 and work on restoring these , plus regauging them for use on the centre 's narrow gauge line will start in the near future . |
| 19 | Apart from this consideration , Soviet spokesmen implied that there was little difference between Gailani 's stand and the essence of the Carrington Plan : both were directed at a thorough recomposition of the Marxist DRA government . |