Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] was at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley . |
| 2 | ‘ I rather think ’ Mr Nightingale said ‘ that I was at school with your uncle C. A. Harbinger . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , I was always thankful that I was at Magdalen , perhaps the most beautiful of Oxford colleges . |
| 4 | During the time that I was at MainMan , David had become more and more removed from us , but I figured that that was because he was so busy and that was the way it was when you had become a big star . |
| 5 | Did I tell you that I was at Belsen just after it was liberated ? ’ |
| 6 | The old woman stared at him and her eyes were bright and piercing and the silver thimble had fallen to the lap of her dress , and her fists were clenched now as if she searched for a memory , and her husband watched her anxiously as if he witnessed that she was at war within herself . |
| 7 | Naturally nobody would have made this distinction at the time and certainly Julian and all her friends thought that she was at death 's door . |
| 8 | He was sure that it was at Aros . |
| 9 | Now , this was Howard 's first day in the place ( he reminded the Chases and their guests , preparing them dramatically for what was to come ) and he had some vague impression at the back of his mind , left over perhaps from books he had read and films he had seen , that it was at bottom some kind of ecclesiastical institution . |
| 10 | It is generally supposed that it was at Thurgarton . |
| 11 | The defendants wrote to him and told him that they had decided to pay him a pension of £200 a year and that he was at liberty to enter into any other employment or enter any business , ‘ except in the wool trade . ’ |
| 12 | It was possible that he had forgotten to switch it off last night or that he was at work early , but it was also possible that there had been an intruder . |
| 13 | He had three functions in which he knew that he was at home . |
| 14 | 2:1 When after some days he returned to Capernaum , the news went round that he was at home ; 2. and such a crowd collected that the pace in front of the door was not big enough to hold them . |
| 15 | Alexei came forward so that he was at Rostov 's shoulder . |
| 16 | Similarly , when they exchanged the names of their schools , she found herself immensely relieved when he declared that he was at Winchester , for she had heard of Winchester , she knew something about Winchester , she did not have to feign a non-existent knowledge of Winchester . |
| 17 | No application was made for bail after the court heard that he was at risk to himself and others due to the nature of the crime . |
| 18 | This is a split that can rarely have been witnessed in Glasgow — which does not indicate that he was at fault in consulting his analyst , but does indicate that these autobiographies are sited in very different places . |
| 19 | If you rule this second topic out of order , and the examiner wished it to be included , the examiner will at least see that you have had the point present in your mind , and will probably-also be brought to see that he was at fault in his wording of the question . |