Example sentences of "was a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His daughter was a champion at the Highland Fling ) . |
| 2 | it was a yard at the back , but , I climbed out and stood on the sides |
| 3 | There was a door at the end of the corridor . |
| 4 | There was a door at the end of the bottom corridor . ’ |
| 5 | There was a door at the other end of the tunnel . |
| 6 | There was a door at the top , heavily studded and banded with steel . |
| 7 | it was a contact at the fuse on the tab . |
| 8 | It was a lady at the other end . |
| 9 | He was a suspect at the time , but it took a scientific breakthrough ten years later , to convict him — a DNA profile test which was pioneered by Cellmark Diagnostics in Abingdon in Oxfordshire : |
| 10 | Not only had Yolland been deceived about the BCR 's intentions at Stretford Bridge ; he had also failed to realise that the need to reverse trains at Lydham Heath made tender first running on some part of the line inevitable , whether or not there was a turntable at the lower end of the railway . |
| 11 | Our costume designer was a cleaner at the town hall ; a wonderful woman called Fran who made the most wonderful costumes . |
| 12 | There was a tumult at the gates , and in a few moments Dunan and the Hearthwares joined them . |
| 13 | It was like climbing a waterfall , but there was a warder at the top , clinging to a railing and yelling to us at the top of his voice to hurry — as if we needed such encouragement . |
| 14 | And she married er a man named , Mr , I c do n't know his christian name , and he was a warder at the Leicester prison . |
| 15 | If what was a secret at the time that the contract was entered into subsequently becomes public knowledge then it would be unrealistic if the court were simply to examine the question of reasonableness at the time when the contract was entered . |
| 16 | There was a hangnail at the side of my thumb and now I took it between my teeth and tore it off so that the blood ran , leaving a scarlet spotting on my dress where it bloused out above my waist . |
| 17 | There was a drought at the time , and the crowd declared that " God would not suffer it to rain till Bulcamp Hell was pulled down " . |
| 18 | Before any civilised reply could be made , there was a rapping at the front door . |
| 19 | She was a child at the time . |
| 20 | A snapshot of the Hitler years Sixty years after the Nazis came to power , David Jackson Young talks to a woman who was a child at the time of the Third Reich |
| 21 | They have ripped off £6.7 billion from our state pension fund — a process that started when the current Prime Minister was a Minister at the then Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 22 | In April 1988 , in this Parliament , the Government implemented the changes pushed through when the Prime Minister was a Minister at the Department of Social Security . |
| 23 | Does my hon. Friend agree that we should also pay tribute to Friends of the Earth which , when I was a Minister at the Department of Transport , suggested that it would be sensible for the Minister with responsibility for roads to go to the Netherlands with some civil servants to see how traffic calming works there . |
| 24 | In the evening there was a dinner-dance at the hotel by the exhibition centre . |
| 25 | His parents — his father was a clerk at the docks and his mother a schoolmistress — were never rich but they were very literate and they encouraged their son to read , observe and learn . |
| 26 | The DUP says that Republican violence paid off in the disarming of the RUC , the disbanding of the B Specials , the banning of Orange , Black and Apprentice Boys ' parades resulting in the imprisonment of Loyalists , the overthrow of Ulster 's parliament , the plan for talks with Dublin to change the status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom , the abolishing of the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in the new Assembly and Executive , the making of such oaths illegal for appointment to government boards , the removal of the Governor , the obliteration of ‘ On Her Majesty 's Service ’ from official paid envelopes , the attempt to destroy democracy by power-sharing which was a blow at the secrecy of the ballot box and an insult to British citizenship and standards , the proposal to set up machinery for the transfer of Northern Ireland 's powers to a body or bodies in or with the Irish Republic , and the continued existence of areas in Northern Ireland where the Queen 's writ did not effectually run . |
| 27 | Hence the establishment of the right to enclose land , to sell or rent it , subject only to the ‘ will of the contracting parties ’ : the right to enclose was a blow at the pasturing rights of the Mesta which patently infringed the individual 's right to dispose of his property . |
| 28 | Project engineer Dennis Frost and his wife , Joan , launched the ambitious fund-raising effort to buy a Pegasus air bed , a specialised type which had so much helped their friend , Dottie Forrester , who was a patient at the home . |
| 29 | She was a patient at the Ashbury Lodge nursing home in Swindon in February . |
| 30 | She was a patient at the Ashbury Lodge nursing home in Swindon in February . |