Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] at the [noun sg] " 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 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Marc was stamping about at the top of the steps , knocking the snow off his boots . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |
| 14 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 15 | Bill was snoring away at the bar . |
| 16 | ‘ The sort of people John Smith was winding up at the Trade Union Conference about a return to a Golden Age , when they were back in the driving seat and great rights for their members , and a friendly government again — some of those people are beginning to make noises . |
| 17 | He glanced from time to time out of the window , as if to see what was happening down at the jetty . |
| 18 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 19 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 20 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 21 | Carrie was eager to tell her mother how business was picking up at the dining rooms but she was interrupted by footsteps on the stairs outside and a key being inserted in the lock . |
| 22 | A : to give him and he was writing just at the beginning he was — writing the whole — for each year of his life he wrote something in that had — had been invented or + |
| 23 | Mendez was looking over at the bar ; Russell down at his drink , as if thinking or listening . |
| 24 | He was looking closely at the picture in his hand . |
| 25 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 26 | He was looking wistfully at the Princesse . |
| 27 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 28 | He was looking down at the pavement outside the house . |
| 29 | A middle-aged woman , wearing what looked like a turban , was looking out at the night . |
| 30 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |