Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Last week I was gutted at the sale of Batts , but last night I was so happy that the scum failed .
2 Well , er we 're very lucky that er Oxford 's pretty well covered , yes , we 've , or could do with some more volunteers of course , but we 've got about one hundred and twenty people who 'll be going out in the city , and I was looking at a map this morning and it 's very well covered indeed with purple and yellow lines where we 've actually got people on the ground .
3 At first glance I thought I was looking at a cross between a gibbon and a goat .
4 I was looking at a picture of Stapleton 's face .
5 I was looking at a muzzle shooting at me and I was quite content .
6 I was looking at the scalectrix .
7 I was I was looking at the syllabus last night and I was working out how much we 've got to do yet and where we are an and I really do feel confident that no matter where you are in your course work situation , that if w if we planned the thing right and we sort it out between now and the summer , tha that we could well get a good few Grade A's in here and obviously work it well .
8 Yeah I was looking at the petrol driven ones .
9 I was looking at the sky . ’
10 We went to this very flash restaurant and I was really nervous , you know the feeling — anyway blood was rushing , and I was looking at the menu — my French is pretty good — and I thought I 'd fancy a pork cutlet .
11 And I was looking at the drills , and
12 And I thought blimey , he 's a mongol , you know , when you 're looking at them , and then I was looking at the nurses and waiting for everyone to say something , and nobody said nothing .
13 As you know it , this is the last I 'm sure everyone 's aware it 's the last item on your agenda when I was looking at the agenda this item was before the fox hunting motion I thought well it 'd be nice to have a debate before the fox hunting motion because we would have er a full house of people who I 'm sure would be very interested to hear the discussion on V A T. As matter of fact I 'm sure they would w w would welcome the opportunity to have a de , a discussion , but it seems they have gone and I got , I got it wrong Chairman when you by taking the the the fox hunting motion it should really have , have held on till this time in the evening .
14 Erm I was n't quite certain of the wife 's P H I there was something about twelve months and she was getting a hundred and thirty pounds er I , I lost it because I was looking at the clock at the same , I must confess but erm
15 I was looking at the garden , ’ she said , drawing in a sharp breath , adding to herself , and dreaming of escape .
16 I was looking at the garden as I came in , I thought I might have , even though I did n't know the number
17 that 's right , well the thing is these are , I was looking at the power today I , er not read it properly in the past , there only four rounds , these have got to be A , if you want both A and B on
18 These birds come from America , so they are difficult to get hold of and I had the added problem that I was looking at the end of the breeding season .
19 especially I was looking at the C G A monitor all night ,
20 I was just checking here in from the book by and I was looking at the chapter here on Roses Rivetus and er and it was on the mission to Munster here that er Third Combat Mission once a day for three days ' running was to Munster it was this ill-fated mission that made the reputation as the bloody Hundredth and of course this is the one that he only came back from .
21 So I was looking at the slide sitting on the strings , and looking at the major third on the fretboard , and then I said , ‘ If only I could get this note here . ’
22 taken off it , cos I was looking at the length of it when we were in France
23 And when I showed him a list of names I had collected ( why , I do not know , I had some notion of an appeal or inquiry ) , he read : ‘ Lynch , Connally , Egan , Kelly … etc. ’ and then he looked at me and added , ‘ I was looking at the lists of those who died in the recent great victories of general Gough at Aliwal and Sobraon in India .
24 I was looking at the vectors on either side of him to see if he had any friends and when I came back he was gone . ’
25 While I was gazing at the chamber a schoolgirl who was touring the gallery with her father came up and asked me how it worked .
26 So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course .
27 No need for him to know that I was watching at the window .
28 I was lookin' at the pichers . ’
29 We were I was I was patrolling at the time , with me partner .
30 It was somewhat similar with me ; the war was on , albeit far away , and I was missing it ; patriotism and duty did enter into the picture but I was chafing at the bit like Old Dobbin who could not bear to stay away from a fire !
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