Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [n mass] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | JEALOUS Jerry Hall is quizzing staff at the chateau Mick Jagger bought for her — about claims he spent secret nights there with Carla Bruni . |
2 | If the strategy for Bovril Cubes is to gain sales at the expense of Oxo , the Bovril Cube target group will , inevitably , consist primarily of Oxo users . |
3 | Halliwell was cooking haddock at the time . |
4 | Everett , who had been ordered to take a rest at 98 trips , was testing aircraft at the Group Maintenance Unit when he heard that there was a spare aircraft going a-begging at his old squadron . |
5 | He was pestering people at the bar , trying to butt into their conversations or sit down at their tables and behaving — as far as people who did not know he was ill were concerned — like an archetypal northern wally . |