Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , er we 're very lucky that er Oxford 's pretty well covered , yes , we 've , or could do with some more volunteers of course , but we 've got about one hundred and twenty people who 'll be going out in the city , and I was looking at a map this morning and it 's very well covered indeed with purple and yellow lines where we 've actually got people on the ground . |
| 2 | At first glance I thought I was looking at a cross between a gibbon and a goat . |
| 3 | I was looking at a picture of Stapleton 's face . |
| 4 | ‘ I was looking at a muzzle shooting at me and I was quite content . |
| 5 | I was learning at a place where we hired the computer 's time and it was cheaper to get a night run . |
| 6 | As a child I was kept at a distance from her , because of rifts in the family . |
| 7 | White Face materialized out of thin air when I was drinking at a pool . |
| 8 | ‘ I was staying at a hotel , so I rang room service for a raw steak , which arrived with a flower in a vase and a piece of lemon on the side . |
| 9 | Then one day — I 'll always remember — I was staying at a friend 's house and I was sweeping this carpet and I had this vision . |
| 10 | The following night , I was speaking at a transport dinner in London and found myself sitting two or three down from a general . |
| 11 | A few years later , while I was talking at a meeting on educational reform , a local superintendent of schools rose from his seat in the back of the room and , moving to the door , said scornfully , so that many could hear , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ They sent me out to do a match report and while I was sitting at a desk typing it up , Captain Bob appeared in the office , attracted by the presence of television cameras . |
| 13 | A few months later I was sitting at a table opposite three Foreign Office officials . |
| 14 | Suddenly I awoke to the fact that I was staring at a tree on the other side of the road and that this tree was green and delicate . |
| 15 | I was staring at a woman I thought of you . |
| 16 | When I was working at a hospice I followed up bereaved people who it was felt might need some support . |
| 17 | When I was working at a Polytechnic , we were once required to submit the areas of current research interest for storage on central records . |
| 18 | I was working at a hospital in the out-patients ' department recently and when I was leaving at the end of my shift one day , I saw the following message pinned on the notice board , obviously from an extremely irate patient : ‘ Time is a great healer . |
| 19 | A firm , insistent hand between my shoulder-blades pushed me further into the room ; my feet moved , but my body refused to follow and I realised I was standing at an angle . |
| 20 | The other thing is with the competency f if you w if you were looking at a competency chart with a certain member of staff , and identifying that they were incompetent |
| 21 | It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows . |
| 22 | A minute later her head was as high as the tallest tree in the wood , and she was looking at a sea of green leaves . |
| 23 | She was looking at a man in an evening clothe . |
| 24 | She had n't thought she would understand what Fand meant ; but after only a moment the sense came to her that she was looking at a prisoner — at someone captive , helpless . |
| 25 | She was looking at a picture of Miss Rosalie Ray , a very beautiful young woman . |
| 26 | She was speaking at a conference looking at problems facing the countryside . |
| 27 | In general she was functioning at an 18-month to 2-year level . |
| 28 | Wearing jeans and a blue shirt , she was tugging at a filing cabinet which was too large for her to embrace and which was threatening to over-balance on her . |
| 29 | She was acquitted at a trial at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court earlier this month , but the solicitor was asked to come back and explain his actions . |
| 30 | She was picking at a leaf-taking the green out to leave a filigree of veins . |