Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 2 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 3 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 4 | Sue likes me … lots of people like me … when I was helping out at the meat counter the other week , Jim said we should go bowling one night . |
| 5 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 6 | There were times when I was starting in at the cattle that it stood between me and the road . |
| 7 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 8 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 9 | ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively . |
| 10 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |
| 11 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 12 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 13 | I thought she was staying up at the villa to rest ? ’ |
| 14 | I turned to share the wonder of it , but she was gazing up at the bloom of flame surging from the chimney 's mouth , and beyond where the evening-star glittered against the deepening blue sky . |
| 15 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 16 | She was staring down at the undulating ground . |
| 17 | Ruth whirled round and faced Fernando who 'd appeared from nowhere as she was peering up at the house . |
| 18 | She was sitting down at the table ; he thought she really was looking very ill and wretched but his tender pride kept him silent . |
| 19 | ‘ Coming sir , ’ they both trilled , and soon we were sitting down at the dining table in a corner of the living-room . |
| 20 | The road was deserted and we were throbbing along at a moderate pace when suddenly the engine sputtered and stopped . |
| 21 | At the time a lot of people felt we were selling out at the bottom , but I have n't heard that accusation recently . ’ |
| 22 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
| 23 | She went around with a group of friends of about the same age , and one evening they were messing around at a friend 's house when his parents were out . |
| 24 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 25 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 26 | One evening , while they were dining out at a restaurant , he decided to buy some condoms from a machine . |
| 27 | He passed Caballeros and Bugner as they were holing out at the 15th and driving at the short 16th . |
| 28 | They were each offered a can of cold beer from a coolbox , and within a short time they were lining up at the barbecue , a plate in hand . |
| 29 | Quite a number of them were turning up at the BBC and the harassed receptionist was heard to say , as she reported the arrival of yet another , ‘ I 'm sorry , where did you say you were king of ? ’ |
| 30 | Unfortunately , this had the effect of making it also extremely mobile during transport , and it was sliding about at every bend in the road . |