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Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] at the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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 .