Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four alleged militants of the FIS were paraded on television on Oct. 1 and were heard to confess at length to the bomb attack at Algiers airport on Aug. 26 which killed 10 people [ see pp. 39072 ; 39118 ] . |
| 2 | The devil likewise found work for idle hands while the entire staff of Harvard Securities were gathered to gawp at Leslie Grantham , alias " Dirty Den " the pub owner in the TV soap opera Eastenders , who was accepting a large cheque on behalf of the Spastics Society . |
| 3 | The presence of 200 nmol/l staurosporine did not alter the time course of the desensitisation that was seen when HGT-1 cells were exposed to histamine at 37°C ( data not shown . |
| 4 | It was decided to generate the samples from referrals to the psychogeriatric service in each borough , partly because it was easier to do that than to draw them from general practitioners ' lists or social services department referrals , but mainly in order to provide the service for people whose illness was likely to be at a relatively advanced stage and who were likely to need extra care if they were to continue to live at home . |
| 5 | on collecting my T-shirt and participants instructions a few days before the event , I was rather alarmed to discover that we were expected to meet at Alexander Stadium at 7.45 a.m. on the Sunday morning , a time that I did n't really know existed even before my maternity leave ! |
| 6 | She found that domestic life imposed more constraints upon girls than upon boys , for they were expected to stay at home and help with housework . |
| 7 | Women were forbidden to work at night in any industry ( a move opposed by some feminists ) . |
| 8 | Until recently , however , only the Archaeological Survey of India and the Konserwacji Zabytkow of Poland were permitted to work at Angkor Wat and Bayon , respectively because , like the Cambodians , they were aligned with the former Soviet bloc . |
| 9 | The South Africans were made to feel at home from the moment they entered Jamaica and they were clearly bewildered by the irony of their having been applauded out on to Sabina Park while Richie Richardson , the West Indies captain , was booed throughout the game . |
| 10 | Consultants Coopers and Lybrand Associates and SETEC Economique were commissioned to look at ways of identifying and measuring Community interest , and used the Channel fixed link as one of their main case studies . |
| 11 | The families were told to attend at half-hour intervals from ten o'clock onwards . |
| 12 | More than 300 children , aged seven to 11 were told to stay at home . |
| 13 | More than 300 children , aged seven to 11 were told to stay at home . |
| 14 | We were told we were going to stop at Coventry on the way for lunch . |
| 15 | I told him our plan but he was none too eager until I told him we were going to play at funerals and that Frankie wanted him to imitate the preacher ; then he came along at once . |
| 16 | You were going to look at ways of classifying the short stories you 've been looking at , when y , sort of , to look at similarities between short stories , like which ones deal with husband and wife relationships , which ones are about loneliness , I mean , use your paper , it 's it 's only there for scrap paper , you have n't got to produce something that 's gon na be pinned up on the wall . |
| 17 | Commanders were selected at top level of course , after which they were invited to attend at HQ where they would sift through the applications from prospective crew members , discuss them with the administrating Inspector and eventually come to a mutual agreement on the crewing of each cutter for the following year . |
| 18 | Ministers were invited to look at ways in which they could help people in responding to or coping with grief . |
| 19 | This one came just as eyelids were beginning to droop at Tynecastle on Saturday when Hearts and Hibs staged the latest in what has become a very long series of tedious confrontations . |
| 20 | Throughout the 1970's , trains on the existing branch to Arkwright Colliery were having to reverse at Beighton to gain the GC , and the E.R. |
| 21 | As well as central London headquarters , branches were known to exist at Hackney , Kentish Town , Bristol , Glasgow and Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 22 | They were allowed to drink at work ? |
| 23 | Other concessions , however , were more serious ; both Henry VII and Henry VIII were allowed to nominate at will to the English episcopal bench , to translate bishops from see to see , and to obstruct the collection of papal taxes . |
| 24 | During the last phase of the scheme 's existence , when storage problems became increasingly pressing and the scheme 's abolition imminent , artists were encouraged to keep at home the works of art they had officially sold to the government . |
| 25 | The score is sacrosanct ( yes , even early scores where performers were left to improvise at will , since the original performing tradition is now lost to us ) , and except in relatively extreme cases normally gives a clear indication of exactly which notes should be played and when . |
| 26 | The fact that the Phillips curve had appeared on the scene over thirty years after the publication of the General Theory , and that , in the interim , Keynesianism had managed to flourish without it , made little impression on those critics who were determined to strike at Keynesianism with any weapon which was to hand . |
| 27 | The working was booked to stop at Colwyn Bay , Llandudno Junction and Llandudno , and worked from block to block until Muspratt 's Sidings when it took the Down Fast line and having got clear signals , proceeded to try to make up time . |
| 28 | Fergus said , ‘ And so I was sent away and Grainne was permitted to remain at Tara . ’ |
| 29 | He was actually the oldest son of a farmer and er was expected to stay at home and the firm . |
| 30 | He was bailed to appear at Durham Crown Court in December , 1981 , but failed to appear . |