Example sentences of "were [v-ing] at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
2 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
3 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
4 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
5 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
6 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |