Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was pretty odd for Blackheath but not in comparison with the people who were hanging out at the It office . |
| 2 | By the end of the month the French , United Kingdom and United States governments had committed troops to maintain " safe havens " within Iraq , despite the latter 's condemnation , and UN relief agencies confirmed on April 29 that Kurdish refugees who had fled Iraq were returning home at the rate of 20,000 a day . |
| 3 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 4 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 5 | After the cremation , while the few mourners were looking gloomily at the flowers , his uncle 's solicitor , a partner in the Ipswich practice , spoke to Lewis simply to say that he believed he already knew the contents of the will . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Back in the church the priests were shouting angrily at the men . |
| 8 | At the time a lot of people felt we were selling out at the bottom , but I have n't heard that accusation recently . ’ |
| 9 | Quite a number of them were turning up at the BBC and the harassed receptionist was heard to say , as she reported the arrival of yet another , ‘ I 'm sorry , where did you say you were king of ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I think from that report there was a there was a requirement or request that perhaps the theatre should actually have a public meeting to talk about which way the theatre was going what things were going on at the theatre and that 's what the meeting is for this evening . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , however , the rich followed their king 's dictum ‘ Après moi , le déluge ’ , and gave themselves up to pleasure — balls , the opera ( where new works by Gluck , Grétry and Piccinni were finally displacing the heroic works of Lully and Rameau , beloved of the Ancien Régime ) , gambling and hunting ; the chattering middle classes were busy discussing politics and aesthetics ; writers such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society with their radical ideas of universal fraternity in this ‘ Age of Enlightenment ’ ; and the poor were being told to ‘ eat cake ’ , if they had no bread . |
| 13 | So , for many years , the couple made their living as hired help , and were doing so at the time of the film 's success . |
| 14 | Flames were licking hungrily at the material ; it was blazing fiercely . |
| 15 | After a quick glance back through the shop ( Maisie and Ruthie were staring out at the street in silence ) Henry slid one sheet of the printed paper into Gordon 's typewriter . |
| 16 | Already bodies were floating sullenly at the bow , and others were drifting slowly downstream . |
| 17 | one thing 's for sure the appointment of John Gorman is a popular one on the terraces … he 's given the fans what they crave for … and that 's loyalty … from first thing this morning supporters were rolling up at the County Ground to have their say |
| 18 | there 's just five days to go to the start of the new football season … it 's the big kick-off this Saturday … and both Swindon and Oxford were warming up at the weekend |
| 19 | there 's just five days to go to the start of the new football season … it 's the big kick-off this Saturday … and both Swindon and Oxford were warming up at the weekend |
| 20 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 21 | ‘ Coming sir , ’ they both trilled , and soon we were sitting down at the dining table in a corner of the living-room . |