Example sentences of "they [was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
| 2 | She went around with a group of friends of about the same age , and one evening they were messing around at a friend 's house when his parents were out . |
| 3 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 4 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 5 | One evening , while they were dining out at a restaurant , he decided to buy some condoms from a machine . |
| 6 | He passed Caballeros and Bugner as they were holing out at the 15th and driving at the short 16th . |
| 7 | They were each offered a can of cold beer from a coolbox , and within a short time they were lining up at the barbecue , a plate in hand . |