Example sentences of "were [v-ing] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one were gazing at the vertex of a tetrahedron , would the view be different ? |
| 2 | The French guns were firing at the flanks of the Prince 's position ; aiming at the farmhouses to east and west . |
| 3 | The Trunchbull was in such a rage that her face had taken on a boiled colour and little flecks of froth were gathering at the corners of her mouth . |
| 4 | On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity . |
| 5 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 6 | The first French skirmishers were appearing at the edge of the trampled area . |
| 7 | Erm we are not going any further than that erm we the debate this morning erm we were looking at the differences between ourselves and then for example Selby District of what what they would like to see which was er certainly more than growth oriented the County Council 's proposals are . |
| 8 | Two well-dressed women were looking at the greenhouses for sale at a garden centre recently . |
| 9 | Near the door there was a rose-tree and three gardeners , who were looking at the roses in a very worried way . |
| 10 | Cast your minds back , last week we were looking at the relationship between price elasticity of demand and marginal revenue , and what that relationship could tell us about er prices and total revenue in an industry . |
| 11 | Previously we were looking at the way in which the colour order for pattern is decided by the Creation 6 program and took a pattern all the way through to the ‘ Knit a pattern ’ menu , ready to transfer directly across to the machine console . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Both authors appear to belittle the great range of plants that were living at the times of their animals and the ways in which these plants were constantly evolving and migrating . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Yesterday morning the Tories were rejoicing at the prospect of Bryan Gould splitting the Labour Party as deeply as they are split . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Brian Adair , the president of the Law Society of Scotland , said that with underfunding and undermanning the country 's criminal and civil courts were creaking at the seams in spite of efforts to shore them up . |
| 18 | He said the country 's criminal and civil courts were creaking at the seams in spite of efforts to shore them up . |
| 19 | Security and crowd control video cameras were recording at the time of Saturday 's attack , but cut out when the fire blew the electricity supply . |
| 20 | Now police are examining video tapes from cameras used for crowd control and security , which it is believed were recording at the time of the attack . |
| 21 | The agreement was that if both cars were running at the front with no problems , then I was to win . |
| 22 | We could ask further questions — such as , My Lord what you yourself were doing at the banquet on the night Sir Thomas died ? |
| 23 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 24 | The place had n't filled up yet but she noticed that the boys were congregating at the end of the hall beneath the balcony and on the left hand side while the girls were spread between the tables and chairs on the opposite wall , chatting and giggling and trying to pretend they were not waiting to be asked to dance . |
| 25 | Several humans with official-looking trousers and big boots were standing at the bottom of the ramp . |
| 26 | There was nobody else except two strangers who were standing at the back of the church . |
| 27 | They were standing at the bar with their first glasses of wine in front of them . |
| 28 | They were standing at the desk by now and the girl was working on the bill . |
| 29 | But now they were standing at the head of a deep valley in the moor with their ears and tails down . |
| 30 | ‘ I am the Conservatives ’ Jeremy Irons , ’ he murmured as apologetically as if he were standing at the rostrum with a brand new Oscar . |