Example sentences of "[noun] was [v-ing] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Her love of coaching was developing at this stage too . |
2 | The plotting room was suddenly silent and the flag was flying at half mast for all to see on the garrison church at Moascar , Ismailia . |
3 | On relating the story to Mr Bailey , the man asked whether a train service was running at that time of night . |
4 | When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed . |
5 | These formed far and away the largest group in the population of Europe , and it is the evidence that their numbers were expanding rapidly which offers the most substantial proof that the population of western Christendom as a whole was rising at this time . |
6 | First , it is clear that they would need to be mutually oriented ; they would each need to be aware of what the other was doing at any time . |
7 | The House of Lords was deliberating at that moment whether such people could legally be Trustees of a Church of England School ( it was eventually decided that they could not ) . |
8 | Andrew hagans was staying at this bail hostel when he murdered Anna McGurk . |
9 | It was considered that rough copper was costing at that time £3 : 15s : 0d to produce but would sell for only £2 : 16s : 0d at the most . |
10 | He remembers the Very High Frequency ( VHF ) radio was far superior to the kit the RAF was using at that time . |
11 | The gang was pulling at each other , shouting obscenities , opening windows , smoking , drinking wine , pulling the bell cord and shouting for the bus to get under way . |
12 | The Mid Hampshire coroner , Grahame Short , said : ‘ It seems that Sarah was contemplating at that time taking her life . |
13 | Henry 's aftershave was overpowering at this range . |