Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was telephoned at home as soon as it happened and when I arrived everyone was here , police , fire brigade , the gas board and the bomb squad . |
| 2 | MacCabe was appointed to the professorship because he was seen at Strathclyde as " one of the ablest men of his generation " , having " an outstanding record in teaching and research " . |
| 3 | The young man was looking at Wycliffe as though he faced the last judgement . |
| 4 | A petrol bomb was hurled at police as they chased a car containing two men which later careered out of control and plunged 12 feet into a river near Devizes , Wilts , yesterday . |
| 5 | A draft Article allowing for amendment of treaties through subsequent practice of parties ( not third parties ) was rejected at Vienna as likely to promote uncertainty and instability in the performance of treaties . |
| 6 | In the latest incident a nineteen year old woman was raped at knifepoint as she walked home . |