Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] at [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon the skilled steel workers and the coal miners were back at work and there was money in the valleys for traders , services and shop keepers . |
| 2 | It should be noted , however , that if one million of the three million were back at work and not receiving unemployment and/or supplementary benefits from the Exchequer , it would put less strain on the public purse and make it easier to meet the social security benefits for the expected one million over-85-year-olds . |
| 3 | By 23 July 19,000 men were back at work and on 27 July the strike committee ordered an immediate resumption . |
| 4 | I was down at Wentworth and I saw Dicky Powell , the caddie-master , and he asked me who I was working for . |
| 5 | but you see er , yes that 's right and then of course I 'm , since then I was up at Cambridge and that was during the second year |
| 6 | But within two days she was back at school and behaving as if nothing had happened . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ They could have fixed it while I was out at lunch and they never tell you , not if it 's Saturday . ’ |