Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just looking at vehicle operating cost savings . |
| 2 | The girl 's defence solicitor said she was now living at home after months in a children 's home during family difficulties . |
| 3 | In talking about USE and CHOICE in Chapter 1 we were implicitly looking at language from the author 's point of view . |
| 4 | Also , the findings for the causal task indicate that even five-year-olds have some knowledge of the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning , in that their mean score is considerably higher than the score ( of 8 ) which one would expect if they were simply responding at chance level . |
| 5 | They are people who are old enough to go to war , and I think that there is a difficulty , you know , a major amoral difficulty or ethical difficulty in attempting to continue to treat young people as if they were still living at home and were not young adults but were really children . |
| 6 | Was there maybe a sneaking feeling that , if he was n't laughing at her , he was usually laughing at life in general , and that he might be quite fun to be with ? |
| 7 | He was still recuperating at home a few nights later when a rustling from the rafters above his bed proved to be yet another python which had entered the village and was lying in wait . |