Example sentences of "was at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at every stage of proletarian institutions and bore all the characteristics of the British working class . |
| 2 | Almost all temporal business was at a stand , and the shops mostly shut up . |
| 3 | She described how she was at a butcher 's shop when she noticed James had gone . |
| 4 | One such job was at a museum . |
| 5 | Nell was at a bookshelf , reading out titles as the pool of light passed over the volumes . |
| 6 | ‘ According to Rose , he was at a factory in Anduze by nine and spent the rest of the morning there . |
| 7 | Calving and kidding times were chosen so that milk production was at a peak when skiers and tourists were around in the spring and summer . |
| 8 | He bellowed something which Jess could n't catch , but she knew his rage was at a peak . |
| 9 | The former president noted that the relationship between the legislature and the executive was no longer what it had been : ‘ Immediately after World War II the presidency was at a peak ; the Congress was very responsive , especially in foreign policy . |
| 10 | The strength of her need was at a peak , heightened somehow because of the noise and the crowd all around them . |
| 11 | Tritsch Tratsch had been mounted for Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet ( the first performance was at a matinée on 20 September 1947 ) and was an immediate success . |
| 12 | When news came of Robin 's death , it was at a weekend ; she shut herself away , and saw no one , not even Nathan Holland who had come to console her . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr Evans was at a Council meeting and Auntie Lou was at the Chapel , cleaning up for Sunday . |
| 14 | ‘ I remember I was at a council meeting and they mentioned they were having difficulty letting an old shop on the end of Redcar pier , ’ said Mr Brook . |
| 15 | It was at a cocktail party in the prestigious Monomatapa Hotel . |
| 16 | She was wearing high-heeled shoes — which is very unusual for a First Spiritualist — and she was smirking at people as if she was at a cocktail party rather than morning service . |
| 17 | Their first date was at a pub in Middleton town centre . |
| 18 | I was at a day school in Hampstead , King Alfred School , in its heyday , and we went out to Golders Green and boarded the open top of a No. 13 bus and sat on it till it came back to Golders Green again — such sights we saw ! |
| 19 | It was at a church in Hertford . |
| 20 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 21 | The afternoon rehearsal started late because Meredith was at a working lunch in Rose 's office . |
| 22 | The twentieth century has its own Christian martyrs : St Maximilian Kolbe , who exchanged places with a condemned Jew in the concentration camp and was starved along with his fellow prisoners , before being fatally injected with carbolic acid ; Dietrich Bonhoeffer , a minister of the Confessing Church of Germany , who was executed by the Nazis ; and Archbishop Romero , gunned down when he was at a prayer meeting . |
| 23 | For any placement of the feeders , the closest wall was at a distance of at least 1.05m and the closest corner 1.48m. b And c , representative paths on training trials . |
| 24 | We could still hear the fighting , but it was at a distance , while the sermons from the mosque were louder than ever . |
| 25 | As you can imagine I was at a bit of a loose end . |
| 26 | He was at a standstill for just 7.5secs and returned with his lead still intact . |
| 27 | Hospitals were reduced to emergency cover , schools were closed , and much of industry was at a standstill . |
| 28 | Less than half the rail network was operable , industrial production was at a third of its pre-war level , overseas trade was at a standstill . |
| 29 | Military expenditure therefore absorbed 70 per cent of revenues , and over half the country 's industry was at a standstill , the remainder working below capacity . |
| 30 | He was at a window table but he was ignoring the river , being deep in conversation with a middle-aged man wearing a suit and a short sheepskin car coat with matching brown suede shoes . |