Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talks took place on 13th July and were adjourned at the suggestion of the Chairman . |
| 2 | The centres with high U/Pb also have higher average Ce/Pb than most basalts ( Fig. 3 c ) If the U/Pb ratios are representative of their sources and were fractionated at the time of formation of the oceanic lithosphere , this must also be true of the Ce/Pb ratios . |
| 3 | We had filled our tank , and were eating at the open food-stall , or " warong " , just across the street when a dilapidated petrol-truck pulled in to top up the filling-station 's reservoir . |
| 4 | Her hair was done in pig-tails that hung over her shoulders and were tied at the bottom with satin ribbon . |
| 5 | It was also to be a welcoming home for John and Angela , who had come down to watch the final round and were staying at the Bell Hotel . |
| 6 | Plans to merge the two began to be put into effect last year and were completed at the end of February . |
| 7 | We arrived at Addis Ababa at midday on 28 October and were received at the railway station by the Emperor . |
| 8 | The platforms were reached by ‘ Stanwood ’ fixed steps and were closed at the driver 's end by ‘ Bostwick ’ collapsible gates . |
| 9 | These responses , like those in the next sections , were provided by respondents without prompting and were classified at the data analysis stage of the study . |
| 10 | The central doors are by Ludovico Pogliaghi and were finished at the end of the nineteenth-century ; the door panels represent episodes in the life of the Virgin , the ‘ light ’ being the Coronation . |
| 11 | In our study , gender was taken account of in the selection of workshops : we studied workshops with men only , with women only , workshops where men and women did the same work and were paid at the same rate , and those where the sexes did different jobs and men were paid more than women . |
| 12 | Temptation proved too strong one night when there were some naval cadets in the audience who threw flowers and chocolates up to the troupe and were waiting at the stage door after the show . |
| 13 | After a long walk we came out between the dunes and were staring at the sea . |
| 14 | For reasons explained in the rolling stock chapter , they were not entirely satisfactory and were returned at the end of 1923 . |
| 15 | A month ago he had a positive diagnosis and was treated at the Churchill Hospital . |
| 16 | As a 17-year-old , Daniel was diagnosed as suffering from testicular cancer and was treated at the Royal Marsden . |
| 17 | The revision of Chapter II on Evidence followed and was completed at the Eleventh Session of the Conference in October 1968 . |
| 18 | The story was supposedly told by Charley 's friend , Bill Bellaser and was related at the turn of the century in ‘ Stories , Lyrics and Legends of the West Country ’ by Mary Walsh . |
| 19 | Once he went to the house in Stone Alley and was met at the door by Maggie Byrne , but she only wanted to talk about the undersized child in her arms whose life he had saved . |
| 20 | He was greeted by 5,000 UNITA supporters and was met at the airport by government representatives . |
| 21 | The tender has been in a finished condition for some time and was seen at the last Open Day some two years ago . |
| 22 | Debriefed in fine detail by Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , largely to see what could be done to patch up a new link with the Asmar network , Coleman was told to keep the video gear pending a resolution of ‘ this goddamn DEA fuck-up ’ and to take charge of Syrian George , who , as it happened , had arrived two days earlier on his J-1 visa and was staying at the International House on the University of Alabama campus . |
| 23 | In fact , she sounded particularly cheerful ; it was the first morning she had woken up with no trace of sickness , and was cheered at the thought of entering the ‘ blooming ’ phase of pregnancy . |
| 24 | The police were called , my client was arrested and was detained at the police station from about midnight on the Saturday until eventually he appeared before the court about four o'clock on the Monday afternoon . |
| 25 | Philippa was wearing a black kerchief which covered her hair and was tied at the nape of her neck , a knee-length black T-shirt and black straw sandals . |
| 26 | For the first time in its history the Irish Bank Officials ' Association attended and was represented at the Conference by fifteen Delegates led by the President , Leonard Coote . |
| 27 | He drove out onto Mount Pleasant and was stopped at the temporary lights where the new sewer pipe was going in . |
| 28 | He went down the stairs and was stopped at the sound of voices . |
| 29 | He had pulled the band of material that passed for a skirt up around her waist and was tugging at the top of her tights . |
| 30 | Lord Grubb was an ancient hereditary peer who kept up eagerly with the times and was trying at the moment to unlock his capital to set up a chain of waffle shops . |