Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the [adj] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks like it 's going to be difficult to shrug this one off , picking at the racist scab was never going to do anyone any good , quiffy boy . |
| 2 | He helped her out when her father 's meeting at the Black Friar was raised . |
| 3 | Jumping at the same event was the famous ski jumper Eddie ‘ The Eagle ’ Edwards . |
| 4 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 5 | The surprise for well-fed French bureaucrats heading for a busy day paper shuffling at the European Commission was lightened only by the inclusion of croissants as a side course . |
| 6 | Communications arriving at the orderly room were largely turgid documents in ‘ Whitehallese ’ from the War Office . |
| 7 | The film playing at the local kinema was Chances , a war-time romance also starring Anthony Bushell and Rose Hobart . |
| 8 | Experience with 761 had shown that loading and unloading at the same door was too slow on the Promenade . |