Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were scratching at the airlock . |
| 2 | They were seated at the breakfast bar in the kitchen , and she pointed to a row of cereal boxes at the far side of the room . |
| 3 | In December , when 12 managers visited , they were collected at the airport and taken to Kilmarnock first of all , where Andrew Steel , Managing Director , conducted a tour of Douglas Reyburn 's yarn , spinning and dyeing operations . |
| 4 | What was interesting about the projects was that they were asked at the outset to establish their local objectives , and set criteria for success for themselves . |
| 5 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 6 | We know that the Ancient Egyptians er did insist on circumcision er they were racially very erm erm er very prejudiced the Ancient Egyptians cos they were living at the peak of cultural time and regarded all other races as inferior to them and one of the main er stigmas in inferiority was erm not being circumcised and Ancient Egyptians regarded people who were n't circumcised as filthy and erm they er they had this tremendous er racial pride in themselves as the circumcised people , and this of course has passed on into Judaism and even to Islamic faith . |
| 7 | I remember going upstairs while they were looking at the corpse and writing a note with trembling fingers . |
| 8 | However , a bright lady from one of the northern co-ops came up to me later with the simple answer : they were looking at the prices and making their choice on that basis in much the same manner as they might go into a butcher 's shop with a price tag for the weekend shopping firmly implanted in their minds . |
| 9 | Caspar was explaining in a hushed voice that they were looking at the Robemaker 's stocks of enchantments . |
| 10 | Now I was concerned that nobody although they were looking at the water , they were looking at the borehole , they were looking at the electric , nobody was actually looking at production up there . |
| 11 | We were just walking off the 18th — with yet another par , and yet another good one but without a birdie to the end — when the crowd started fidgeting because they were looking at the scoreboard . |
| 12 | The Conservatives are inconsistent , I mean that when they wrote the policy , when they were looking at the guidelines this erm I ca n't remember off hand what it was on page fifty . |
| 13 | Now I was concerned that nobody although they were looking at the water , they were looking at the borehole , they were looking at the electric , nobody was actually looking at production up there . |
| 14 | Now I was concerned that nobody although they were looking at the water , they were looking at the borehole , they were looking at the electric , nobody was actually looking at production up there . |
| 15 | Although they were looking at the clump of bushes from a different angle now , she knew it was the same clump they had seen from the gate . |
| 16 | As they were looking at the seed packets together , the robin hopped on to a branch near them . |
| 17 | The sudden , brief Egyptian twilight had come upon them while they were looking at the boat . |
| 18 | Menem delivered a speech over the remains before they were interred at the Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires where Eva Perón was also buried . |
| 19 | In the United States , the Library of Congress has been classifying and cataloguing audio-visual materials for many years , so long as they were deposited at the Library for copyright purposes . |
| 20 | Certainly , the Serbian forces have publicly admitted that they had targeted the regional museum in Sarajevo : early last month the BBC 's war reporter Kate Adie quoted the Serbian explanation of why they had shelled the hotel which houses all the foreign correspondents : apparently they were aiming at the roof of the museum ( which contains the Bosnian anthropological material ) and missed . |
| 21 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 22 | First up , they were stopped at the US border for the customary van search and their local driver was found to be in possession of a dozen or so ready-rolled ‘ recreational ’ cigarettes . |
| 23 | The difference is hard to explain as there was no difference between the two groups in terms of whether or not they were employed at the time they enquired about the courses . |
| 24 | The idea that there is some correct and timeless view , against which historical controversies can be judged , can prove an insensitive guide to the issues as they were perceived at the time . |
| 25 | You may think they were tainted , but we know they were tested at the priory and I doubt the Lady Eleanor would have taken them solely on the Prince 's word . ’ |
| 26 | I tried to move my hands and they hurt , but I established that they were n't tied , they were taped at the wrists . |
| 27 | Only 1 man in 5 had planned the occasion , for 17% it was a one-night stand , for 13% it happened at a party , while 11% say they were drunk at the time . |
| 28 | in Reid in response to counsel 's submission that a husband could only be guilty of kidnapping his wife if they were separated at the time . |
| 29 | She did mind , though , and , as they were met at the emergency entrance with a wheeled stretcher-bed for Faye and a paged message for Tom summoning him to the renal unit to attend urgently to another patient , her concern for Faye 's condition battled for priority in her thoughts with painful images of Marise Wyspianski glowing in the magic aura of Tom 's kiss , and of Tom himself , at the wheel of the Mercedes just moments ago , staring so grimly into the Christmas Eve traffic . |
| 30 | As they were waiting at the bus stop in the main square of Fiesole , about five minutes ' walk from the house , she said carefully : |