Example sentences of "were [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were times at the Oval when both sides had thoughts of winning ; at one point the bookmakers quoted 100 to 1 against a West Indies victory , but a day later they were 5 to 4 when England 's Pythonesque second innings was at its nadir . |
| 2 | It is clear that there were disagreements at the highest levels on the timing of the abolition of Pomgol and the export of grain . |
| 3 | There were voices at the doors and then blinding sunlight sprang into the van . |
| 4 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
| 5 | But there were intimacies at the opposite end of the social scale — in which a barrow girl might fancy a young police constable , or a socially mobile ‘ buck ’ might seek advice from the local fount of authority and knowledge . |
| 6 | Publications on theology and religious teaching methods were bestsellers at the first ecumenical book exhibition held in Taiwan , 15–23 February . |
| 7 | There were turrets at the corners and a guardhouse over the entrance . |
| 8 | Many restraints , as in Commercial Plastics , refer to the fact that a party may not solicit or compete with the other party in relation to those who were customers at the date of the determination of the contract . |
| 9 | There were queues at the till , until customers started walking out . |
| 10 | There were examinations at the end of the college year , in May . |
| 11 | The Malthusian of June 1914 estimated that 100,000 women a year took drugs to induce miscarriage , and there were suggestions at the time that there were few mothers of large families who had not attempted abortion . |
| 12 | An action duly brought against a firm is an effective action against all those who were partners at the date the cause of action accrued ( and so , for example , an order for discovery will be in essence an order for discovery against all those persons ) , and this is irrespective of subsequent changes in the composition of the firm . |
| 13 | Anthony spent as much time with Julia as he could , but there were patients at the hospital who were iller even than she and at times he had to leave her with Comfort and Annunziata . |
| 14 | We were co-worshippers at the Surfside Pyramid . ’ |
| 15 | He moved towards her , opening his arms , and I saw there were tears at the corners of his eyes . |
| 16 | They were toddlers at the time of Watergate , not yet 10 when Mrs Thatcher came to power , Nato decided to introduce cruise and Pershing missiles and the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan . |
| 17 | There were moves at the next table . |
| 18 | Carl Shirley , son of James and Gladys who between them were licensees at the hotel from 1933–53 , died on February 23 . |
| 19 | Rabbiting on as if — as if they were friends at the very least … |
| 20 | The Labour Government was not prepared to let those who were pensioners at the time die in poverty , while awaiting the gradual implementation of a new scheme . |
| 21 | Also starring among the patterns are three motif sweaters designed by school children who were prize-winners at the Hobby Horse show in Cwmbran , whilst for animal lovers we have Wendy Phillips ' giant panda chewing his bamboo or Iris Bishop 's fox slinking through the September woods . |
| 22 | There were guys at the factory that Anton liked ; in a place with some fifty men , there must be some you like . |
| 23 | They asked her for ‘ pen portraits ’ of the seven children who were pupils at the school . |
| 24 | In one corner a modest selection of Penguin books cost 6d each , and nearby were cigarettes at the same price — a tanner for a packet of ten . |
| 25 | The overall incidence of symptomatic gall stones among the 20819 women who said they were smokers at the start of the study was 20% higher than that found among the 25558 non-smokers . |
| 26 | Passing on now to the Cretaceous , there were Complications at the beginning of that period , perhaps related to the poorly dated orogenies of other parts of the world . |
| 27 | David was merely paying his social class dues — yes , you 've guessed it — Dave and the lads were boarders at the same minor Public School together . |
| 28 | There were faces at the glass of the windows watching their approach . |
| 29 | There were faces at the barrier , people craning for a last look . |
| 30 | They were students at the University of Glasgow , and had no knowledge of the point of the experiment . |