Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [v-ing] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , surely the English hens were laying at the same rate as they did in peacetime ? |
| 2 | Three or four people without seats were standing at the far dome car end , including the actress Angelica . |
| 3 | Over 500 of the company 's workers were protesting at the possible closure of the British-controlled company , following reports that its main creditor bank had threatened to withdraw funding . |
| 4 | Environmentalists and fishermen were protesting at the devastating effects of the Spanish and Italian drift-net fishery for swordfish . |
| 5 | A score of older cadets were waiting at the far end behind what was evidently a transparent plascrystal wall . |
| 6 | Nalgo members were protesting at the proposed closure of a 24-hour crisis intervention centre . |
| 7 | The demonstrators were protesting at the imminent loss of 5,000 jobs in the region in the mining , steel , shipbuilding and fertilizer industries , and expressing fears for the future of at least half of Cartagana 's active workforce of 60,000 . |
| 8 | A number of ships were leaving at the same time — presumably with what they 'd come for , after Recovery — but we were slotted into the readiness pattern at fourth place . |
| 9 | Two men were standing at the further end of the clearing shooting at a wand . |