Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giant Hercules transport aircraft were touching down at Aldergrove Airport every few minutes . |
| 2 | In fact , these Croydon cars were broken up at Brixton Hill , standing on Erith trucks . |
| 3 | Experiments were carried out at Pitlake junction with an electric induction frog setting device , from 18 January 1947 . |
| 4 | The aircraft was designated the W-3 and initial flight tests were carried out at Abbotsinch near Glasgow on July 9 , 1936 . |
| 5 | HUNDREDS of people were checking in at New York 's JFK airport , but one face stood out from the crowd . |
| 6 | The Arundel trainer had felt an April fool when his first two runners of the campaign — including an odds-on shot — were turned over at Brighton on Thursday . |
| 7 | Reports reached rally organisers that 1,000 Muslims were turned back at Gotse Delchev on their way to Sofia . |
| 8 | We were enumerated off at Brodick which is still the ‘ tourist centre for exploring the island , and is in daily communication with the mainland … ’ |
| 9 | Indeed , similarities in their formulae suggest that both were drawn up at Fécamp in 1033 . |
| 10 | The last rites of the VORRSA were played out at Welshpool at the end of September , when the assets were transferred to the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway . |
| 11 | None of the sixty-five racers were holding back at Fairford . |
| 12 | Last month the CPS offered no evidence on any of the charges , and Mr Haughton , Mr Martin and Mr Palmer were bound over at Liverpool Magistrates Court . |
| 13 | Army bomb disposal experts were called in at Hope , Derbys — and another ‘ suspicious package ’ was found four miles away at Bamford . |
| 14 | Before the receivers were called in at Olympia & York , the Reichmann brothers commanded a billion-dollar business empire which had changed the skyline of London and New York . |
| 15 | During the 1950s further units were set up at London and Liverpool University to assess attitudes in industry . |
| 16 | In France State-owned arms factories were set up at Maubeuge and Charleville in 1718 ; the government made itself responsible for the supply of uniforms in 1747 ; and the old system of military hospitals , which had left them largely in private hands , was abolished in 1788 . |
| 17 | In contrast , two experienced chemists — Fred Field and William Spiller — were taken on at Locksfields , and had set about extending the firm 's list of dye products . |
| 18 | They were standing up at UFO and saying : ‘ This is fucking rubbish , people are being killed in Vietnam ’ , and some people would say ‘ It 's all in your head man ’ . |
| 19 | It hardly matters whether either of these stories is true , we know that cork was available , although not in France , and that Dom Pérignon did eventually use cork-stoppers for his wines , as corked bottles were dug up at Hautvillers when Moët & Chandon renovated the abbey in the late 1970s during its operations to turn it into a museum . |
| 20 | His team were booed off at Vicarage Road after their eighth game without a win . |
| 21 | He showed no emotion as the charges were read out at Cookstown Magistrate 's Court . |