Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 2 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 3 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 4 | Sue likes me … lots of people like me … when I was helping out at the meat counter the other week , Jim said we should go bowling one night . |
| 5 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 6 | There were times when I was starting in at the cattle that it stood between me and the road . |
| 7 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 8 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 9 | ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively . |
| 10 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 11 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 12 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 13 | I thought she was staying up at the villa to rest ? ’ |
| 14 | I turned to share the wonder of it , but she was gazing up at the bloom of flame surging from the chimney 's mouth , and beyond where the evening-star glittered against the deepening blue sky . |
| 15 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 16 | She was staring down at the undulating ground . |
| 17 | Ruth whirled round and faced Fernando who 'd appeared from nowhere as she was peering up at the house . |
| 18 | She was sitting down at the table ; he thought she really was looking very ill and wretched but his tender pride kept him silent . |
| 19 | Jarvis , who was getting out at the next station , asked where they would be the following night ; the man who said his name was Jed Lowrie told him the Metropolitan , the Hammersmith Line . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's been like that most of the afternoon , ’ Sister Duggan , who was standing by at the foot of the bed , told him . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , this had the effect of making it also extremely mobile during transport , and it was sliding about at every bend in the road . |
| 22 | It was standing up at a crazy angle out of a mass of ferns . |
| 23 | Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people . |
| 24 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 25 | He was looking down at the pavement outside the house . |
| 26 | It must have been an automatic reaction because he was looking down at the motionless figure and shouting , ‘ Harriet ! ’ |
| 27 | When they had gone , Maria glanced at Luke , but to her relief he was looking down at the photos Florian had left behind , his expression inscrutable . |
| 28 | He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions . |
| 29 | Court Four of the Royal Courts of Justice in London was packed with judges and barristers to hear the support lent to Lord Lane , who announced in February that he was stepping down at the age of 73 , 18 months before the compulsory retirement age for judges . |
| 30 | By day 22 he was getting up at the ‘ correct ’ time ( that is , his morning and real morning coincided ) , but had lost a whole day . |