Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But all right , ’ he said sociably , ‘ were there days at the orphanage that were better than others ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I have seen God face to face , and yet my life is preserved ’ were his words at the start of the day . |
| 3 | Such events , however , were not very frequent — a whole year might pass without one — and so the only additional earnings he could usually rely on were his winnings at the weekly bridge school . |
| 4 | ‘ So they were your soldiers at the ford , ’ Isabel realised . |
| 5 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |
| 6 | Forced by her boyfriend , it is alleged , the girl sold sex for up to £90 a session and there was nothing staff at the Suffolk County Council home could do about it , Ipswich Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 7 | ‘ He was my tutor at the Recruitment Project . |
| 8 | She was my doctor at the time , she was she was oh she was a grand person was Doctor . |
| 9 | It 's not a view that I particularly share but erm it was their view at the time . |
| 10 | But the putt she will take rather longer to forget was her seven-footer at the sixth . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Since it was his turn at the sharp end , Mick set out on what we thought would be the crux of the route . |
| 14 | It was his management at the end of last season that cost United the First Division title . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And what was his reaction at the end of that ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But it was our job at the back to stop him and Mike Newell scoring and we did that . ’ |
| 20 | The figures assume that the age shown was your age at the start of the policy . |
| 21 | And what was your job at the time ? |