Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numerous prizes , generously donated by sponsors , were given out at the end of the day . |
| 2 | Details of these were given out at the April training day and included in that days ' notes . |
| 3 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 4 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
| 5 | Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years . |
| 6 | In medieval times well-documented court activities were carried out at the caputs already discussed . |
| 7 | The controls were voted in at the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ( CCMLR ) . |
| 8 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 9 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 10 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 11 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 12 | Everything seemed to be settled when Taiwanese and Indonesian officials agreed that the animals would be sent to the orang-utan rehabilitation centre run by Dr Galdikas at Tanjung Puting in Kalimantan ; and in November 1990 , they were seen off at the airport by BBC cameras , reporters from around the world and a hundred singing Taiwanese children . |
| 13 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
| 14 | Our pens were collected up at the end of each session , so we never got the same pen twice , resulting in the nibs being frequently crossed . |
| 15 | The London theatres , which had for so long been a particular thorn in the side of Puritan moralists such as William Prynne , were closed down at the outbreak of the civil war and remained shut until the Restoration . |
| 16 | When we reached the hospital , four cars and a Land Rover were drawn up at the bungalow . |
| 17 | He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry . |
| 18 | The awards for last year 's performances were handed out at the club 's dinner/dance . |
| 19 | — Nearly 50 awards were handed out at the Erimus Quoit and Rifle Social Club , Middlesbrough for the Winter Handicaps 1991–92 . |
| 20 | Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute . |
| 21 | Both were reported to have agreed , but the talks were called off at the last minute . |
| 22 | The receivers were called in at the Broadgate developer and the shares suspended at 7¼p , but the FT-SE 100 Index shook off the crisis and climbed to a new peak , up 18 points at 2778.8 . |
| 23 | Two additional changes ( also only relevant to joining a new scheme ) were brought in at the same time . |
| 24 | The directives were brought in at the beginning of the year in response to EC directives . |
| 25 | The First Spiritualists were camped out at the edge of a grove of birch trees . |
| 26 | Most of them are sandstones or limestones that were laid down at the bottom of the shallow seas that once covered this part of North America . |
| 27 | The field at Adswood was sold , and new playing fields were laid out at the front of the School , facing the railway line . |
| 28 | Organization at the grassroots level was clearly the most urgent need in order to reach remote starving villages , yet in Tsaritsyn as in other gubernii no local relief committees were set up at the uezd and volost' levels until October 1921 , that is , over two months after the formation of the guberniia committee . |
| 29 | Even outside Europe , in Canada , Catholic unions were set up at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to ‘ protect ’ French-Canadian workers from the more suspect ideological influences of American ‘ international ’ ( actually bi-national ) unions which were organising there . |
| 30 | His trousers , made of what looked like sacking , were chopped off at the knee , held up by a strap wound round his middle . |