Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At first glance I thought I was looking at a cross between a gibbon and a goat . |
| 3 | I was looking at a picture of Stapleton 's face . |
| 4 | ‘ I was looking at a muzzle shooting at me and I was quite content . |
| 5 | I was learning at a place where we hired the computer 's time and it was cheaper to get a night run . |
| 6 | As a child I was kept at a distance from her , because of rifts in the family . |
| 7 | White Face materialized out of thin air when I was drinking at a pool . |
| 8 | ‘ I was staying at a hotel , so I rang room service for a raw steak , which arrived with a flower in a vase and a piece of lemon on the side . |
| 9 | Then one day — I 'll always remember — I was staying at a friend 's house and I was sweeping this carpet and I had this vision . |
| 10 | The following night , I was speaking at a transport dinner in London and found myself sitting two or three down from a general . |
| 11 | A few years later , while I was talking at a meeting on educational reform , a local superintendent of schools rose from his seat in the back of the room and , moving to the door , said scornfully , so that many could hear , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ They sent me out to do a match report and while I was sitting at a desk typing it up , Captain Bob appeared in the office , attracted by the presence of television cameras . |
| 13 | A few months later I was sitting at a table opposite three Foreign Office officials . |
| 14 | Suddenly I awoke to the fact that I was staring at a tree on the other side of the road and that this tree was green and delicate . |
| 15 | I was staring at a woman I thought of you . |
| 16 | When I was working at a hospice I followed up bereaved people who it was felt might need some support . |
| 17 | When I was working at a Polytechnic , we were once required to submit the areas of current research interest for storage on central records . |
| 18 | I was working at a hospital in the out-patients ' department recently and when I was leaving at the end of my shift one day , I saw the following message pinned on the notice board , obviously from an extremely irate patient : ‘ Time is a great healer . |
| 19 | A firm , insistent hand between my shoulder-blades pushed me further into the room ; my feet moved , but my body refused to follow and I realised I was standing at an angle . |
| 20 | The council also approved the appointment of Dr John Bynner of the School of Education , Open University as co-ordinator for the initiative , whose first task was to formulate a research design which was finalized at a workshop held in the summer of 1986 . |
| 21 | Mr Zhivkov 's resignation , which was announced at a meeting of the Bulgarian Communist Party 's Central Committee , took Bulgarians and the diplomatic community by surprise . |
| 22 | The figures were seen as evidence that both the dollar and US interest rates should drop to correct the huge trade imbalance which was projected at a record level of about $165 billion for the year . |
| 23 | Yek bathing involved immersion up to the neck in water which was maintained at a temperature hot enough to strip the flesh from a man 's bones if he did not acclimatise himself to it gradually , and baths were communal . |
| 24 | The money , which was raised at a golf classic organised by sub-officer Tony Oakes and his crew at Downpatrick Fire Station , was presented to assistant divisional officer Ken Spence . |
| 25 | In this connection it is appropriate to mention a model which was demonstrated at a genetics meeting in London some years ago . |
| 26 | Press accounts of the IAEA 's report based on the preliminary findings of its sixth inspection team [ see p. 38451 ] indicated that there was conclusive proof of an extensive Iraqi nuclear weapons programme , the hub of which was located at an installation in Al Atheer , about 60 km south of Baghdad . |
| 27 | It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows . |
| 28 | A minute later her head was as high as the tallest tree in the wood , and she was looking at a sea of green leaves . |
| 29 | She was looking at a man in an evening clothe . |
| 30 | She had n't thought she would understand what Fand meant ; but after only a moment the sense came to her that she was looking at a prisoner — at someone captive , helpless . |