Example sentences of "[vb past] [was/were] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 . |
| 2 | On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity . |
| 3 | The decision to have the three executed was taken at the very top by a Cabinet sub-committee . ’ |
| 4 | All he did was remain at the point where they first met . |
| 5 | In each case the sentence is true if the person who spoke was skipping at the time of the utterance . |