Example sentences of "were [vb pp] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were another 100 miles of flatland , of dust , sheep , rheas and distant mountains before we were stopped at a police post . |
| 2 | Miss Jeanette , who at the time was Nichol 's 16year-old girlfriend , told how a week after the attack they were stopped at a police road block . |
| 3 | WHEN HE saw his hands in the light he flinched , and held them away from him , to avoid letting them touch any other part of his person or habit , for the right was engrained with drying blood across the palm and between the fingers , and the fingers of the left were dabbled at the tips , as if they had felt at stained clothing . |
| 4 | The Republican tradition lasted into the Empire : ancestor portraits were carried at the funerals of early imperial princes and notables , and both the imperial family and the surviving nobility continued to stress , and indeed enhance , their origins and virtues . |
| 5 | His fists were clenched at the seams of his trousers . |
| 6 | Birds showing the characters of the race carolinensis were seen at the Midrips between 19 and 22 March 1961 , and in the Cuckmere Valley on 21 and 22 March 1975 . |
| 7 | Numerous petitions concerning the forest were presented at the parliaments of this reign and the beginning of the next . |
| 8 | However , I recall with equal clarity the cries of ‘ Anti-English ’ behaviour when England were defeated at the hands of Scotland in Murrayfield two seasons ago , partly because the Scottish chose ‘ Flower of Scotland ’ as their national anthem . |
| 9 | Horses for sale were tethered at the sides of them and tack , leather and ironwork were displayed on the tail-gates which were turned into makeshift stalls . |
| 10 | Four barricades , three of them protected by cannon , were built at the ends of the main streets , and 200 or 300 men posted at the bridge over the River Ribble , but no defences were built there . |
| 11 | These charges were collected at the ports by agents for the lighthouses . |
| 12 | And erm the I , I ca n't remember er oh I think most of the work up there that I was on , we were doing different jobs in the mill , like er when very too when the mills were closed at the holidays , we , we used to go up and work in some of the mills . |
| 13 | At the crown , small rollers were used at the roots for smaller curls and larger ones towards the ends for more body |
| 14 | Thirty-two year old David Casey and his 30 year old wife Jacqueline were accused at the Magistrates Court yesterday of conspiring with other people to cause an explosion likely to endanger life . |
| 15 | By sad contrast , the people who led the bloodless revolution last autumn — many of them artists , writers , musicians and teachers — were eclipsed at the polls . |
| 16 | Tim noticed that they looked shabby , their clothes were worn at the edges , the collars dull and frayed . |
| 17 | I tried to move my hands and they hurt , but I established that they were n't tied , they were taped at the wrists . |
| 18 | On his feet were a pair of odd socks that were holed at the toes . |
| 19 | There was an unfortunate lack of clarity about the status of the ideas which were introduced at the courses dealing with classroom practice . |
| 20 | Many of those who have been chosen in place of the knights are Essex Men , but Essex Men with degrees : clever chaps like John Wittingdale and Oliver Letwin , whose cloaks were laid at the feet of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 21 | However , Cavendish was of more assistance to L : Lord Parker C.J. emphasised ( at p.378 ) that more must be proved for actual or constructive possession than that the goods were found at the premises , it had to be shown that goods had come to the premises by arrangement and that a servant or agent had instructions to take the goods . |
| 22 | He called for an Arab order " far removed from the stains of oil , consumerism and tyranny " and attacked " those Arabs " who were " motivated by tribal affiliation and arrogance " and who had " flooded the nation with their oil and bragged about their seats which were restored at the hands of the foreigner and with its lances stained with the blood of their brothers " . |
| 23 | Three men and one woman were arrested at a travellers ' site at Windmill Lane near Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
| 24 | Yet , though the concept of class is vague , with social and economic divisions acting only imperfectly to distinguish social groups , the major occupational categories persisted in giving a sufficient basis for social distinction during the inter-war years , even though many differences between social classes were blurred at the margins . |
| 25 | Missiles — including an egg and a rock — were thrown at the vans and two people hammered on their sides . |
| 26 | Stones were thrown at the police and a number of shop windows were broken . |
| 27 | After a couple of hours , during which some sticks and other items were thrown at the police and insults were shouted , a mounted police line was drawn up behind the police cordon and a row of police vans . |
| 28 | Violence flared and on at least one occasion stones were thrown at the police . |
| 29 | Probably , during the war we did quite well , what with the black Americans because they were stationed at the towers and they used to give us kids chocolates and |
| 30 | Also out and about this week were THE PRIMITIVES and CHAPTERHOUSE who were spotted at THE POETS gig tapping their beer bottles along in time to the swell up-and-coming sounds emanating stageside . |