Example sentences of "were [v-ing] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had filled our tank , and were eating at the open food-stall , or " warong " , just across the street when a dilapidated petrol-truck pulled in to top up the filling-station 's reservoir . |
| 2 | Murder victims Julie Godwin , mother of a young child , and Elizabeth Over , both 30 , were holidaying at a remote bush camp close to the Mozambique border in Zululand . |
| 3 | He threw himself forward , startling the beasts that were tearing at the prostrate girl on the ground , and arced his sword round with manic strength , tearing the blade through two of them with one swing . |
| 4 | I originally had this idea through the workers union in Manchester , and I was wondering if there were any comparative studies that were happening at the same time , and that would be really interesting to see how Oxford compares to other areas . |
| 5 | ‘ Their letter relates to an earlier position when we were looking at a phased opening because we had not identified full resources , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The right hon. Gentleman said that the previous set of talks had concluded , and that we were looking at the new basis for talks . |
| 7 | Erm presumably we are talking here next year , talking about sort of years effects , and I just wondered what would be the effects that in general terms if we were looking at the full year effects ? |
| 8 | Thus Janet D. , the daughter of a cooper , and James R. , a chauffeur and the son of a flourmill warehouseman , were living at the same street number when they married in 1911 . |
| 9 | Last time er it was er free distribution , so they needed someone to , workers for that and Sikh temple offered their services and er , I think they did the job very well because mostly we get a lot of volunteers round and er , many times I went their there was quite a big queue , er five or six people were serving at the same time . |
| 10 | In the other bedroom , Carrie and Anna were listening at the open window , both doing their best to suppress giggles . |
| 11 | It was Christmas 1781 when news filtered through that they were celebrating at the Red Lion at Bishopsgate ( an inn later to be made famous by Dickens 's Old Curiosity Shop ) . |
| 12 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 13 | A score of older cadets were waiting at the far end behind what was evidently a transparent plascrystal wall . |
| 14 | As they came close we watched as they demonstrated the subtle science of reading the often obscure words of the hymn and seeing where they were going at the same time . |
| 15 | When the delegates assembled for the Special Conference on August 15th they heard a lot of revolutionary-sounding rhetoric from leaders who knew that they were kicking at an open door . |
| 16 | We did n't sit down thinking deeply about what we had been doing or anything like that , largely because we were teaching at the same time . |
| 17 | A couple of punks on the far side , also waiting to cross , were pointing at the oblivious Slater and laughing . |
| 18 | She and Tudor were staying at the Black Boar , Chollerton 's only hotel . |
| 19 | They toured with another Leeds ' band , Age Of Chance , who were breaking at a faster pace than themselves . |
| 20 | Their membership , mainly middle-class , have met considerable difficulty in trying to achieve their limited goals — integrated schooling for the children of those parents who wish it — though some of the membership in the early days were aiming at a total integration of the schooling system . |
| 21 | Output prices were rising at an annual rate of 4½ p.c. last month , against 4.4 p.c. in February . |
| 22 | The talks began early yesterday morning and were continuing at an undisclosed venue . |
| 23 | So if there 's any er er erm thought that the er ombudsman complaints were running at a high level as far as this committee 's interest were concerned , I can confirm that that is n't in fact the case . |
| 24 | Erm for instance in the period eighty nine to ninety two , we were running at an annual average of about a hundred and seventy four conversions a year . |
| 25 | ‘ If the Americans ever find out what we were doing at the Jenner Clinic , ’ Hennessy told him gloomily , ‘ I wo n't even make it that far . ’ |
| 26 | Put that down and we thought right draw the circle , space it out equally , six equal angles is what we were doing at the same time as six equal arcs , all at sixty degrees , or all at one sixth of three sixty . |
| 27 | The scale can be illustrated by the fact that 30 years ago our young people were maturing at a later stage than now , but in many cases were leaving school at an earlier age and taking up employment — the gap between adolescence and employment was perhaps only 12 months . |
| 28 | Over the third quarter of this year , he told parliament , output by Soviet industry had risen at a rate of one per cent while wages were soaring at an annual pace of 15 per cent . |
| 29 | In 1990 , Heritage Minister , David Mellor said the press were drinking at the last chance saloon . |
| 30 | Israeli police have shot dead twenty one Arabs in Jerusalem , and injured one hundred others who were protesting at a planned march by hard line Jews . |