Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here was the team which he had come to when it was struggling pathetically at the bottom of the First Division ; the team which he had made one of the greatest in the history of football , beaten by a fifth-rate side . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 3 | Because everybody was treated equally at the start of their Legion service , Mike , who had learnt his killing in the bush war in Rhodesia , was treated the same as a South Vietnamese man who had never put on a uniform in his life . |
| 4 | Heparin ( 2000 IU ) was given intravenously at the beginning of the procedure . |
| 5 | To prevent acidosis due to the operative trauma an infusion of a glucose-bicarbonate solution ( see below ) was given intra-arterially at a rate of 0.03 ml.min - 1 . |
| 6 | I know , but the appalling thing is that the address list was given out at the A G M and Christine 's phone number is on it . |
| 7 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 8 | They had joined a Gordian knot of vans , taxis , and automobiles that was inching forward at a pace that had set that little muscle in his jaw to knotting and unknotting . |
| 9 | Sue likes me … lots of people like me … when I was helping out at the meat counter the other week , Jim said we should go bowling one night . |
| 10 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 11 | Her hand lay gently on his shoulder , barely pressing against him , yet it seemed he was gathered there at the point of contact , his whole self focused in her touch . |
| 12 | He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions . |
| 13 | I turned to share the wonder of it , but she was gazing up at the bloom of flame surging from the chimney 's mouth , and beyond where the evening-star glittered against the deepening blue sky . |
| 14 | It was when I was gazing dully at the finger , the heel of my hand resting in an intercostal space , that I felt the faintest flutter from below . |
| 15 | ‘ Mrs Wormwood is n't going to thank you for this , ’ the man said as he led her into the sitting-room where a large platinum-blonde woman was gazing rapturously at the TV screen . |
| 16 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 17 | Court Four of the Royal Courts of Justice in London was packed with judges and barristers to hear the support lent to Lord Lane , who announced in February that he was stepping down at the age of 73 , 18 months before the compulsory retirement age for judges . |
| 18 | Marc was stamping about at the top of the steps , knocking the snow off his boots . |
| 19 | These carvings have been off display for many years as it was discovered that atmospheric pollution , even within the museum , was eating away at the stone . |
| 20 | I was on my own now , faced with that half-obliterated turn at the V-point of the side gorge where water pouring over the track was eating away at the surface . |
| 21 | As was pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , they shared classical criminology 's view that the purpose of penal practice was effective crime control . |
| 22 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 23 | THE ROAD was hidden slightly at the bend , behind the overhang of the rowan trees and they came across the barred gate a little too quickly , crossing the bridge before realising that it was now behind . |
| 24 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |
| 25 | It was caught up at the neck into a huge thick collar of silver fur . |
| 26 | Not only did the train travel fast , it spread fast and soon the world was opening up at a pace not previously imagined . |
| 27 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 28 | Wycliffe was booked in at a hotel on the waterfront , up river from the wharf and facing the village of Flushing across a narrow stretch of water . |
| 29 | For all the assurances from those around me that I was perfect Legion material , I could not accept that the prestigious French Foreign Legion would have any need of the services of somebody whose military prowess was earned more at the bar than in the field . |
| 30 | Bill was snoring away at the bar . |