Example sentences of "was [verb] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 2 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 3 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 4 | I would n't get the opportunity to find out who else was calling me at the same time . |
| 5 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 6 | It 's bigger than British Telecom which , at its profitable peak , was coining it at the rate of £90 a second . |
| 7 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 8 | My fortune was denied you at the last , and that was the spur . |
| 9 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 10 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |