Example sentences of "[was/were] all [v-ing] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And they were all haemorrhaging at the back .
2 He was saying , ‘ Now we 'll go over to the bees , ’ and he went over and they were all lying at the bottom .
3 ‘ Taki told me they were all sitting at a table telling jokes over dinner when suddenly there was a royal command — a spoon tinkling on a glass .
4 The authors put the materials together while they were all working at the University of Strathclyde , primarily on the Programme in Literary Linguistics .
5 They kept running into one another because they were all staring at the sky .
6 The audience were all staring at the stage — as though not daring to miss one moment .
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