Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further education in domestic science was given at the Women 's Department of King 's College , which opened in 1909 . |
| 2 | He was educated at the Friends ' School , Rochester , and Grove House , Tottenham . |
| 3 | He was educated at the colleges of Leamington and Llandovery ( Carmarthenshire ) , entered Trinity College , Cambridge , and took his BA degree in 1857 and MA in 1867 . |
| 4 | The incident happened when a window was smashed at The Travellers Welcome in East Hagbourne . |
| 5 | Her mum 's 30-year-old wedding dress , altered to fit Joanne , was ruined at the cleaners and came back two inches shorter than when it went . |
| 6 | Was chucked at the police station . |
| 7 | There was none , and the Red Army was defeated at the gates of Warsaw . |
| 8 | The first of the new sketches shows a man who was seen at the docks the Saturday before with a woman who resembled Carol . |
| 9 | A fibreglass dinghy filled with delicate sounding equipment towed back and forth across the Channel was built at The Moorings , Mill Lane , the home of Mr. H. F. Mallett , a director of the marine survey firm Underseas Ltd . |
| 10 | The ICO was housed at the Cedars in Sydenham , south London . |
| 11 | Paul David McGeown , 28 , from Stewart Street was accused at the Magistrates Court yesterday of seizing the cars in the Ormeau area during July and August . |
| 12 | The President was perturbed at the signs of Russian obduracy over Poland but felt that cooperation with Moscow could be preserved if the correct blend of firmness and concession was applied . |
| 13 | He moved to Louth in 1938 and was based at the maltings on Leakes Row . |
| 14 | When the name of Holovich was called at the parades and counts , he shouted back ‘ Holly … here ’ and the trifle of the gesture was ignored . |
| 15 | Mr Hewitt was arrested at the offices of Gloucestershire Social Services by officers from the Child Protection Unit of the Norfolk police force . |
| 16 | The formation of the group , called the Networking Technical Support Alliance , was announced at the Systems Support Expo in Boston . |
| 17 | A Liverpool Seamen 's Protection Society claiming 2,800 members was represented at the Trades Union Congresses of 1874 and 1875 but fell under suspicion . |
| 18 | To ring the changes , hair was sprayed at the roots and lightly backcombed for an alternative look . |
| 19 | While he was detained at the police station a number of police-officers used a key taken from the arrested man to enter his mother 's home . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ My desire was for punishment , not revenge , and was directed at the officers who gave the orders — perhaps because of the interviews . ’ |
| 22 | Balkan aggression was directed at the Germans and Austrians for much the same reason that Polish nationalism was directed against the partitioning powers , but unlike the Poles , the Serbians and Bosnians were supported by the Russians . |
| 23 | That and the rain , which stained the concrete a dirty brown , gave the place a deserted look even during term-time , but the fact that it was so close to London meant that it really was deserted at the weekends as students and staff headed for the bright lights . |
| 24 | It appeared to be a glove that was hinged at the joints . |
| 25 | A barricade was built in Fahan Street and set on fire and a continuous fusillade of stones was thrown at the police sheltering behind Butcher Gate . |
| 26 | The graphs on this page illustrate the trends and the type of casualty and are taken from the Institution 's 1990 Annual Report which was issued at the Meetings . |
| 27 | It is fair to say that during the day and a half of discussions in June 1993 alarm was expressed at the difficulties posed by the future of the historian 's resource . |
| 28 | He said that there was definitely a mortuary in Bala and had been told that the key was kept at the police station . |
| 29 | In this sense it was aimed at the problems highlighted by the National Unemployed Workers Movement demonstration in 1932 as well as the fascist disturbances . |
| 30 | It was aimed at the women and children . ’ |