Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [v-ing] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same person the same person all I 'm saying the reason that the meeting was convened this evening and the reason that Paul wants the meeting this evening was to get the views from the public about what they felt was going on at the playhouse and what they would like to see that is n't taken place I think that was the thing behind the meeting and that 's what we 'd like to see right okay . . . |
| 2 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 3 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 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 | Dave did n't bother to shave until the evenings , and Colin 's shoes had been coming away at the sides for weeks . |
| 6 | Mr Brumhill had been working late at the shop on Wellingborough Road , something he often did . |
| 7 | Mr Brumhill had been working late at the shop on Wellingborough Road , something he often did . |
| 8 | Meanwhile however , the rest of the Hurricanes had been suffering badly at the hands of the German fighters . |
| 9 | Ewen Mackay had been staring hard at the other man while they talked . |
| 10 | No answer suggested itself , however , and after a minute or two he became aware that as these thoughts whirled through his mind he had been staring down at the grilles confining the Chinese coolie families . |
| 11 | They had been sitting together at the top of their organisations throughout the years of cut-backs . |