Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] at a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were another 100 miles of flatland , of dust , sheep , rheas and distant mountains before we were stopped at a police post . |
| 2 | Miss Jeanette , who at the time was Nichol 's 16year-old girlfriend , told how a week after the attack they were stopped at a police road block . |
| 3 | Three men and one woman were arrested at a travellers ' site at Windmill Lane near Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | A sergeant 's car was hit , and two shots were fired at an inspectors vehicle . |
| 5 | A UN military observer , Colonel Walter van Dijk , who was with the convoy when it was stopped at a police and army barricade in Serbia yesterday , said the fate of the convoy had been ‘ resolved at the highest level ’ . |
| 6 | Diana was enrolled at a girls ' day-school , Charles at a nearby kindergarten . |
| 7 | Her toddler Gareth Mr Ashworth 's son was missing and the hunt was extended to Scotland after the youngster was abandoned at a citizens ' advice bureau near Glasgow . |