Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How long were you at the factory ? ’ she persisted . |
| 2 | ‘ Why were you at the gallery ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Why were you at the Star and Garter , sir ? ’ |
| 4 | " Where were you at the time ? " |
| 5 | So how much were they at the Swan 's then ? |
| 6 | But today there was no-one at the office which appeared to have been burgled . |
| 7 | the sticker was at the bottom , and there was nothing at the top and she , and she was still looking down at it , in other words there was nothing in it before |
| 8 | On realizing that there was someone at the door , he quickened his pace , so that our view of him was a fugitive one . |
| 9 | At least there was someone at the end of a line who knew me . |
| 10 | The responsibility for bearing human beings was too great for a human being to bear : to bring a child into the world was a terrible thing to do unless you could be sure that there was someone at the end to take it out with at least as much love and care as you had brought it in with . |
| 11 | The cases came in a rush , in part because social services started referring a backlog of children because there was someone at the hospital prepared to diagnose , she says , and because Dr Wyatt started asking whether sexual abuse might be the problem in cases which had failed to respond to previous treatment . |
| 12 | Was you at the Park last night , madam ? |
| 13 | Owen could hardly bear to look at her , so much was she at the mercy of the music , plunging with it into pits of despair , rising with it to heights of exaltation that were almost unbearable . |
| 14 | Was she at the party , the ‘ Darling , darling ’ of his letter ? |
| 15 | Was she at the hospital ? |
| 16 | What size was she at the time of change ? |
| 17 | It was like that game where you were blindfolded and spun round , and then you had to try and touch someone , Creed and the Skull , they were close one moment , then they were dancing out of reach , and nothing would sound like anything when he played it back , it would sound like interference , nonsense , silence , but he stayed with it , trips to the bathroom to sluice his nose and throat , more trips to replace the tapes , because he sensed they were leading up to something , there was something at the end of this rainbow of places , not gold but something . |
| 18 | That was something at the time that I felt I did n't really need myself . |
| 19 | I thought that there was something at the appraisal though there was supposed to . |
| 20 | why , erm , at Dawn 's we erm done this thing , and it was sort of , there was four sides of it and it was one , then there was two inside , well there was one at the back , erm , Henry and Mrs said when you get these back you 'll see what you 've got , and people , she said , people who have got over twenty of er , the better than the people who are lower and I got twenty one |
| 21 | Well there was one at the end at en e at the end of er Walk . |
| 22 | Er I remember a debate , they 'd two debates , there was one on the Market Square and there was one at the Cosmo , between the Black Shirts er and of course the Cosmo platform was open to anybody , did n't matter who they were , any shade of opinion . |
| 23 | Was anybody at the controls ? ) |
| 24 | Michael Aspel , who made his first TV appearance in 1957 , hosts The Trouble With The Fifties , an LWT special which revives the decade 's golden moments with vintage clips and an audience of anyone who was anybody at the time . |
| 25 | It was her at the helm |
| 26 | ‘ Was he at the party on Friday night ? ’ |
| 27 | Leading by example is not enough — nor was it at the time of Risinghill . |
| 28 | What was it at the period in the recent past that fascinates you ? |
| 29 | Was it at the end of every bar ? |
| 30 | Was it at the end of every two ? |