Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] at the weekend " in BNC.
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| 1 | THREE people died and two others were injured at the weekend when their car crashed into a train it was trying to beat over an unmanned level-crossing near Doncaster , South Yorks . |
| 2 | Nine people were injured at the weekend when a bomb exploded in a dustbin at the Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg . |
| 3 | THE right to roam should be enshrined in Swedish-style legislation , Scottish ramblers were told at the weekend . |
| 4 | The figures , which were announced at the weekend , disappointed most and led to warnings of cuts in services to avoid charge capping . |
| 5 | Police are hunting arsonists following a dutch barn blaze at Liverton Lodge Farm , near Loftus , when 500 bales of hay and 1,000 bales of straw were destroyed at the weekend . |
| 6 | It was steamed at the weekend and made an impressive sight when it was double headed with the line 's own former NCB No 20 . |
| 7 | Frank Sinatra was told at the weekend that the four pasta sauces named after him are being withdrawn . |
| 8 | A team was also carrying out checks on all 250 addicts registered with the Turning Point drugs centre in Worcester , where the body of Mrs Page-Alucard , aged 41 , was found at the weekend . |
| 9 | The body of ten year old Nicola Yates was found at the weekend , |
| 10 | At one stage the route took them past a park where the body of a ten year old girl was found at the weekend . |
| 11 | The body of thirty year old Ian Barrett was found at the weekend in his flat at Cowley in Oxford . |
| 12 | And Francis has yet to decide whether he can recall Carlton Palmer , who was axed at the weekend because illness has affected his form . |
| 13 | This was followed at the weekend by reports alleging that Mrs Mandela was implicated in the death of Dr Abu-Baker Asvat , who was murdered in his Soweto surgery in 1989 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A SIGNIFICANT step was taken at the weekend towards the development of eastern Europe 's capital market , as representatives of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development discussed making the bank 's first domestic bond issue in a former communist country with Hungarian investors and finance ministry officials . |
| 16 | It is possible that Dundee United 's Duncan Ferguson , whose exile from the first team at Tannadice was ended at the weekend , could even be seconded from Scotland 's Under-21 squad as emergency cover for Ibrox . |