Example sentences of "and [pron] [was/were] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stayed in a cottage on the cliffs , overlooking the harbour , and within moments of arrival , my brother Ian and I were at the end of the pier , fishing . |
| 2 | and I was at the bottom |
| 3 | ‘ And you were at the Houses . |
| 4 | It had thrown up some very challenging cross-references in its time , and she was at the moment pursuing a connection between the nature of quattrocento pigmentation and lichenology as a method of dating the antiquity of landscape : a gratifyingly pointless and therefore pure pursuit , which enabled her mind to wander in the direction of Italy and to hover about the abstraction of a particular shade of green-blue which she had noted in many a painted Italian scene as well as in the lichens of ancient English woodland . |
| 5 | And she was at the cemetery every day with |
| 6 | It was as we started our second run and we were at the lights at the corner of Portman Square , that I saw the cops had concentrated themselves on the traffic island in Baker Street . |
| 7 | Because Dannii was famous and they were at the same school , Kylie wanted to make a name for herself . |
| 8 | Another five minutes and they were at the edge of the meadow . |
| 9 | Barely pause and they were at the foot of a steep corner crack . |
| 10 | It arose because of my meeting George Wigg in the army , whom I had encountered when I was based at Southern Command headquarters and he was at the same headquarters as a Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of army education , where he had already established a reputation for ruthless eccentricity . |
| 11 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 12 | Only the north side of the scheme was carried out in 1825–6 as the Privy Council Offices and the Board of Trade , and it was at the Treasury 's instigation that Seward in 1833 produced a scheme to house various governmental offices in a block on the south side of the street , following Soane 's lines . |
| 13 | The figures were required each month , and it was at the third month that the worst discrepancy came . |
| 14 | And it was at the office … that she met the man who said … |
| 15 | And it was at the trekkers ' hut eight days before that we 'd met our porters with their dzos , Dzos — pronounced ‘ Joes ’ — are great hairy pack animals , a cross between yaks and cows . |
| 16 | The two have users in common and it was at the request of some large accounts that the relationship was formed . |
| 17 | It was not going to be easy to get any other candidate , and it was at the same time impossible to let the seat go by default . |
| 18 | But when I actually erm got into the social work side of it , and i saw what the needs there were , erm and it was at the particular time too when you know , lots of teachers were sort of being made redundant , or at at least the er the numbers in schools were n't so high . |
| 19 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 20 | Hotspur asked negligently ; and it was at the girl 's wry face that he looked . |
| 21 | So he was born de Lisle , and it was at the point that he was in military school that he added the Rouget , you know , like having a double barrelled name , |
| 22 | And it was at the wedding of her cousin that Laura had first met Owen 's older brother , Ross Wyndham . |
| 23 | Annie Middlemiss , Dobinson House , West End , Wolsingham : There was to be a sale of furniture at the mart at Wolsingham and my mother and myself were at the viewing in the morning . |