Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prior of the cathedral produced his accounts and was duly assessed at £483. 7s. 6d. in ‘ clere yerlie Revenues and Possessions ’ after sundry deductions from a gross £1,004. 4s. 8d. ‘ as appereth by Rentalles and Bookes of Accompte ’ . |
| 2 | Mr. Steed was duly registered at H.M. |
| 3 | But it is still widely believed that it was a game which was avidly played at Poitiers whenever Marie , her chaplain Andrew , and Chrétien de Troyes came to visit Eleanor . |
| 4 | Following further parries , the operation was successfully conducted at Hammersmith Hospital . |
| 5 | Investment was predominantly directed at infrastructure ( 51 per cent ) , rural development ( 25 per cent ) and social welfare ( 14.7 per cent ) . |
| 6 | ‘ To the Glory of God and to perpetuate the Honoured Memory of Albert William Tarr of this parish who was accidently killed at Dulverton 8th January 1935 at the age of 54 . |
| 7 | The announcement of the new deployment came from the Gulf , from where our defence correspondent Paul Maurice reports : four landing ships have n't been used operationally since the Falklands War ; then Sir Tristram was badly damaged at Port San Carlos and at Fitzroy where her sister ship Sir Galahad was destroyed with the loss of more than fifty lives . |
| 8 | APV was little changed at 131p . |
| 9 | In the latest attack , a fifty-four year old woman was indecently assaulted at Calcut Service station . |
| 10 | ‘ It ’ was all happening at sea . |
| 11 | This fire watching was only done at Wolverton on Saturday and Sunday nights ; for the rest of the week a full night shift was employed . |
| 12 | The former UK Prime Minister Edward Heath , conducting a humanitarian mission for which he was much criticized at home on the grounds of the possible propaganda opportunities which it might afford to the Iraqi leadership , secured the release of some 40 British nationals who arrived at Gatwick airport early on Oct. 24 ( two children , several women , and some of the men on the list of the elderly and sick which he had presented to Saddam Hussein at lengthy talks on Oct. 21 ) . |
| 13 | The Panel 's ruling refers to a document sent to shareholders on October 5 in which the Twigrealm offer was incorrectly valued at 314p a share . |
| 14 | By this stage no recognised forward had yet to score , but that was soon rectified at Wigan , when John Borthwick came off the bench to score a last gasp winner for a 2–1 victory . |
| 15 | John was soon to appear at Exeter in the court of which he previously graced the bench — this time in the dock . |
| 16 | Almost 30 when he was finally crowned at Scone , and with his naturally introspective , melancholy temperament soured by long , enforced idleness , he drove himself to become a man of action and set about destroying those who had grown rich and powerful in his absence , especially the Albany faction . |
| 17 | Jack Nicholson almost crept under the wire before the studio system was finally extinguished at MGM . |
| 18 | The English ‘ national ’ game was largely played at times when the English nation was otherwise engaged . |
| 19 | Moreover , the Commonwealth Strategic Reserve Brigade of British , Australian and New Zealand troops was already stationed at Malacca in support of SEATO , and the 17th Gurkha Division was responsible for security in Hong Kong , Malaya , North Borneo and Singapore . |
| 20 | He was conditionally discharged at Marylebone court , London . |
| 21 | Does he further agree that that needs to be a Europe which is not only open and ready to trade fully with the rest of the world , but also ready to grapple with the greatest danger facing European stability , a danger which was scarcely mentioned at Maastricht , and which must be faced by ensuring that the nations of eastern Europe make it all the way to open democracies and that the vast and scattered nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union is brought under proper control and we prevent a great proliferation of nuclear weapons in the successor states ? |
| 22 | I was just looking at vehicle operating cost savings . |
| 23 | I have n't got any with me , and I was just looking at graphs for someone else earlier . |
| 24 | I think it was just the thought that if one shift did n't turn up or if people stopped turning up , then others would n't turn up and it 'd just escalate until everyone was just sitting at home in front of the fire and the quarries would function as normal , and the fact , well certainly with me , I thought well we have to make an appearance to show people that we are still on strike and keep , you know everyone who drives past us will be saying , ah hello what 's up with them ? |
| 25 | As they left the store they picked up a copy of Allied 's 1991/1992 brochure and found the carpet was normally priced at £9.99 . |
| 26 | The regiment I served with at the time was normally based at Osnabruck in Germany . |
| 27 | Thus false positive cases , when a diagnosis of pyloric stenosis was not confirmed at surgery , were not included . |
| 28 | Indeed , Caparo was not represented at Fidelity 's agm on 4 July , at which the auditors ' report was read and the accounts received . |
| 29 | Robert was the only one among staff , parents and boys who was not looking at Mafouz . |
| 30 | She was not looking at Alice . |