Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He was my tutor at the Recruitment Project .
2 She was my doctor at the time , she was she was oh she was a grand person was Doctor .
3 It 's not a view that I particularly share but erm it was their view at the time .
4 But the putt she will take rather longer to forget was her seven-footer at the sixth .
5 It is understood that Mr Major wanted her to be prisons minister , and there was speculation last night that she might have been reluctant to be back in harness with Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Home Secretary , who was her boss at the Health Department during the eggs affair .
6 Well Tony , was who manager at the associated now , er he was very a very popular player , he was a goal scorer on one occasion , they played an away match at Swindon and he scored a goal and the goalkeeper got sent off a John so Tony went in goal and he saved a penalty later in the match , but he was a very popular player he was a a good goal scorer then there was Colin he , he had one of the hardest shots in the league you know , I 've , I 've seen the goalkeeper shrug his shoulders at , at defenders and say well how do you stop those , they used to call him Cannonball at one time , and er there was Tommy he had his collarbone broken and he never played again after , but he was a great centre forward he used to make a lot of space for the other forwards you know .
7 Since it was his turn at the sharp end , Mick set out on what we thought would be the crux of the route .
8 It was his management at the end of last season that cost United the First Division title .
9 According to the Shaka'ik biography of Mehmed Sah , the latter was appointed to that medrese at the age of eighteen ( Mecdi gives seventeen ) ; and it is clear from that account that Fahreddin Acemi was his muid at the time of his first lesson .
10 It had taken him only half-an-hour to reach the heralded target figure , and it was poetic justice that Graham Gooch was his partner at the time .
11 And what was his reaction at the end of that ?
12 Councillor Bookbinder was his opponent at the last election , if I am not mistaken , and I am sure that he at least doubled my hon. Friend 's majority .
13 But it was our job at the back to stop him and Mike Newell scoring and we did that . ’
14 The figures assume that the age shown was your age at the start of the policy .
15 And what was your job at the time ?
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