Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down . |
| 2 | She was confused , one of her friends was picking her up at the studios that afternoon , not M. Apéritif , but a doe-eyed Persian who was — he said — training to be an engineer . |
| 3 | ‘ Pumlumon was directing it straight at the giants , ’ said Caspar . |
| 4 | KENNETH Branagh brings a lot of folk out in hives and I was scratching myself furiously at the thought of Ken , Em , Stephen , Tony , Hugh and Imelda — plus Em 's distinguished mum Phyllida Law as the faithful retainer — all holed up , chummy as you please , in a country house over the Yuletide hols , quaffing bubbly and beating their breasts . |
| 5 | I needed you so badly and all you ever did to me was cut me down at the knees . ’ |
| 6 | yeah and erm she was snogging someone else at the time I think |
| 7 | He had made his right hand into a fist and was jabbing it up at the sky , feinting in the direction of the falling missile . |