Example sentences of "that [pron] [was/were] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A graphics display screen could be used to switch rapidly from one map to another ; this would have the advantage of economy ( in that costly high-quality paper maps would not be needed by each participant ) and would be one way of ensuring that everyone was looking at the right map at any particular time . |
| 2 | No need for him to know that I was watching at the window . |
| 3 | These birds come from America , so they are difficult to get hold of and I had the added problem that I was looking at the end of the breeding season . |
| 4 | All the circumstances of the last charge brought against me point to the probability that I was arrested at the urgent instance of the Home Office . |
| 5 | Witcher was uncomfortably aware that nobody was laughing at the Doctor . |
| 6 | The details of Julian 's life are not known , but it is highly unlikely that she was professed at the time of her visionary experience — if at all . |
| 7 | Luke stood outside his own front door and read the note that Susan had left under the door-knocker , telling him that she was staying at the Palings Hotel . |
| 8 | Harriet glanced at Meredith and saw that she was looking at the picture . |
| 9 | Her voice had a sad note to it and he knew that she was standing at the gate watching him as he rode away . |
| 10 | She realized that she was staring at the snow . |
| 11 | She made out that she was paying at the farm to clean it . |
| 12 | I had heard that you were staying at the farm , ’ Claudine stated , condescending to look at Jenna for the first time . |
| 13 | The right hon. Gentleman said that the previous set of talks had concluded , and that we were looking at the new basis for talks . |
| 14 | It was partly because these artificial agglomerations soon broke up that we were left at the finish with a lot of little scraps , which nobody , when not talking through the back of his head , could mistake for potential nations . |
| 15 | Caspar was explaining in a hushed voice that they were looking at the Robemaker 's stocks of enchantments . |
| 16 | The die study has become one of the most important tools used by the numismatist because it provides a physical link between two separate objects and thereby provides evidence that they were made at the same place and time . |
| 17 | The same method of the die study is also useful in establishing mints , as die links between coins indicate that they were made at the same mint . |
| 18 | What was interesting about the projects was that they were asked at the outset to establish their local objectives , and set criteria for success for themselves . |
| 19 | of patients surveyed were either satisfied or very satisfied with the service that they were receiving at the Northern General hospital trust — an impressive result . |
| 20 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | A series of very guarded letters written in July and August 1559 between them and Elizabeth 's leading minister , William Cecil , shows that they were contemplating at the very least an outright challenge to the regent 's authority — a bold enough but not actually unprecedented step — but possibly something more , and infinitely more sensational , the deposition of the queen herself ; and at the same time they were proposing a dramatic reversal of foreign relations , in which Scottish friendship would certainly be switched from her traditional ally France to her traditional enemy England , and that even closer ties between Scotland and England might be envisaged . |
| 23 | They are satirical and often so horrific that they were suppressed at the time . |
| 24 | Although it can not be proved , there is a strong likelihood that they were working at the old Tilberthwaite Mine in the early part of the next century … someone was , as we shall see late . |
| 25 | So successful was the system that it was reintroduced at the beginning of World War II . |
| 26 | It is scarcely conceivable in the political climate of the time that the alternative would have been adopted as a matter of policy , but that it was avoided at the cost of serious reductions in the level of policing in much of the country suggests a conscious choice . |
| 27 | You can not deduce from the fact that it was happening at the same time that it was a cause . |
| 28 | All four men stood in the room and Farrell raised the pistol once more so that it was aimed at the agent 's head . |
| 29 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 30 | Pinnacle , based in Columbus , Ohio , had originally planned to use the Texas Instruments Inc 64-bit SuperSparc that Sun is using in its latest workstations , but realised some time ago that it was waiting at the back of a long line of manufacturers queuing for a trickle of SuperSparcs being thrown their way . |