Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 2 | US officials denied reports that Iran 's recent acquisition of military hardware from Russia [ see pp. 39122 ; 39170 ; 39214 ] had been raised specifically at the Paris meeting . |
| 3 | However , a cautionary note had been sounded right at the beginning of the whole exercise : |
| 4 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |
| 5 | His strength was as a representative figure , not as an ‘ independent statesman ’ like those whose advice had been swept aside at the Carlton Club , and he wished this to be underlined by a meticulous attention to proper procedure . |
| 6 | The blissfully happy couple had been married quietly at the registry office in Dublin on Wednesday afternoon and yesterday they received a special blessing from a Catholic priest at a secluded hotel in the Wicklow Mountains . |
| 7 | The genre of apocalyptic historical prophecy reached its apotheosis in the writings of Oswald Spengler , whose The Decline of the West had been published coincidentally at the time of Germany 's military defeat . |
| 8 | Dave did n't bother to shave until the evenings , and Colin 's shoes had been coming away at the sides for weeks . |
| 9 | In the interest of minimizing opposition to his initiative , he allowed rumours to circulate in army circles to the effect that the speech had been aimed primarily at the UN which was about to debate the war . |
| 10 | The band had been thrown together at the last moment ; and none of the musicians looked or sounded as if he was enjoying the experience . |
| 11 | Mr Brumhill had been working late at the shop on Wellingborough Road , something he often did . |
| 12 | Mr Brumhill had been working late at the shop on Wellingborough Road , something he often did . |
| 13 | Meanwhile however , the rest of the Hurricanes had been suffering badly at the hands of the German fighters . |
| 14 | Ewen Mackay had been staring hard at the other man while they talked . |
| 15 | They had been sitting together at the top of their organisations throughout the years of cut-backs . |