Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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1 | Various local councillors and moral guardians were waiting for them at the venue , having read local press reports that the Fabs ' travelling show included a rather racy striptease revue . |
2 | Oliver and Tim were waiting for them at the gangway . |
3 | Well they were going with their at the beginning of the year up for register and they 're catching up on it now . |
4 | Like this afternoon — I went on about the armchairs being slashed in Madge 's house — We were talking about you at the time . |
5 | Our classification of references to the care programme approach along a hypothetical assimilation-adaptation continuum suggests that roughly half of local authorities which mention the care programme approach in their plans seemed to have assimilated it , and half were adapting to it at the time of composing the community care plan . |
6 | My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after . |
7 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
8 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
9 | I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend . |
10 | She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot . |
11 | The Bristol Mail was heading towards them at the piteously slow speed of a horse and cart , urged forward by a sleep-weary teenage post-boy . |
12 | The gardener was waiting for them at the front door . |
13 | For an hour the guests sat patiently listening ; then everybody got up and , with the air of people who have been thinking of little else for some time , demolished the langoor ( free food ) which was waiting for them at the rear of the house . |
14 | To Sophie 's and Helen 's surprise , Ian Woodall , looking anxious and drawn , was waiting for them at the hospital . |
15 | I think about Mr Jackson and I get a sort of uncomfortable feeling when I remember he was waiting for me at the house and I did n't come back . |
16 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
17 | When I went into town to order my new clothes , Mr Pumblechook was waiting for me at the door of his shop . |
18 | This time he was waiting for me at the table . |
19 | Jonadab was waiting for her at the stair bottom . |
20 | Uncle Alfred was waiting for her at the entrance to the nest when she arrived . |
21 | The manager was waiting for her at the desk , deftly fidgeting with a half-stuffed peregrine falcon . |
22 | Luke was waiting for her at the bottom of the staircase , fifteen minutes later , looking — surprise , surprise ! — extremely impatient . |
23 | Fernando was waiting for her at the kerbside , leaning against his white convertible Mercedes . |
24 | Tom was waiting for him at the bottom . |
25 | Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time . |
26 | Hasan was waiting for him at the top of the stairs , and , as soon as he heard his guardian 's tread , the little boy sat up , sniffed the air and stretched out his hands like a cat , waking after sleep . |
27 | Cranston was waiting for him at the small tavern just outside Aldgate in the Portsoken overlooking the stinking city ditch . |
28 | Late in the morning Valeria suggested we should all go down and have breakfast , and as we came down the staircase we saw to our horror that her mother was waiting for us at the bottom . |
29 | The steward was waiting for us at the foot of the steps . |
30 | She clenched her jaw to kill the sultry languor that was stealing over her at the sight of his thick lashes lying in two black arcs on his gilded cheekbones . |