Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wycliffe was booked in at a hotel on the waterfront , up river from the wharf and facing the village of Flushing across a narrow stretch of water . |
| 2 | Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier . |
| 3 | But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study . |
| 4 | For these , training was a regular event and in one case was carried out at a separate meeting every alternate month . |
| 5 | His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya . |
| 6 | Much detailed work was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April 1992 [ see p. 38890 ] . |
| 7 | Much of the detailed work on the conventions agreed at the summit was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April [ see ED no. 58 ] . |
| 8 | The commendation reads : ‘ A difficult rescue was carried out at a high degree of risk to the crew . |
| 9 | The base was picked up at a second-hand store , and the crimson cotton shade came from Habitat . |
| 10 | Interest in recycling was stirred up at a free seminar organised by ICI 's plastics environmental affairs group . |
| 11 | The booby-trapped tin was handed over at a nearby checkpoint after the woman , dressed all in black , smiled and wished the soldiers a happy Christmas . |
| 12 | The cheque was handed over at a party held in the Dundonald Ice Bowl . |
| 13 | The cheque was handed over at a party held in the Dundonald Ice Bowl . |
| 14 | The cheque was handed over at a party held in the Dundonald Ice Bowl . |
| 15 | The cheque was handed over at a party held in the Dundonald Ice Bowl . |
| 16 | For the past five years members of the Durham Concert Secretaries Federation have held fund-raising events on behalf of the Wareham Wood Memorial Fund for cancer relief and the latest cheque was handed over at a special ceremony at Osborne Social Club , Chester-le-Street . |
| 17 | A GREY parrot had detectives baffled last night when it was handed in at a Liverpool police station . |
| 18 | Nazarbayev was sworn in at a session of the republican Supreme Soviet on Dec. 10 , at which the republic dropped the words " soviet socialist " from its title to become the Republic of Kazakhstan . |
| 19 | In effect the process of consultation and decision was cut off at a point where the situation was changing rapidly and when the leading contenders for office had in fact agreed to express their willingness to serve under Mr R. A. Butler . |
| 20 | The agreement to form separate groups was worked out at a meeting on Feb. 10 at the presidential residence in Lany , attended also by Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel , who numbered many Liberal Club supporters among his closest associates but who had remained outside the conflict . |
| 21 | This was first suspected in 1878 , when a row of electric lights was put up at a hotel in New York . |
| 22 | The idea was thrashed out at a lunch given by Kenneth Horne . |
| 23 | Ironically , before Monday night 's murder in north Belfast , the only other woman to be killed by terrorists this year was singled out at a flat a short distance away . |
| 24 | A Sinn Fein member , father of six Peter Gallagher , 44 , of Toomebridge , Co Antrim , was gunned down at a builder 's yard in Belfast , on Wednesday . |
| 25 | ‘ The socialist order is in danger in Hungary because internal and external reactionary forces have launched a counter-offensive aimed at restoring capitalism , ’ warned the manifesto of the party 's ‘ Marxist Unity Platform ’ which was read out at a mass rally in a Budapest stadium . |