Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the hardened faggots of Manhattan ( I fancied ) were gazing down at us with concern from their lofts and condos and thinking — we 're pretty brazen , God knows , but these guys , they 'll queer the whole pitch . |
| 2 | Were those dark eyes that were gazing down at her really Guido 's ? |
| 3 | By the time he came off to a huge ovation , Essex were dawdling along at 99-3 off 36 overs . |
| 4 | The Poles were building beautifully at times , and one example engineered by Japek Ziober and Janusz Nawrocki ended with Robert Warzycha curling over a perfect cross from Dziekanowski . |
| 5 | The day-trippers were recovering back at their hotel last night . |
| 6 | Dane , co-pilot Steve Johnsone , 25 , winchman Paul Trethewy , 33 , and radar man Glenn Holmes , 35 , were recovering back at base last night . |
| 7 | Giant Hercules transport aircraft were touching down at Aldergrove Airport every few minutes . |
| 8 | I was pretty odd for Blackheath but not in comparison with the people who were hanging out at the It office . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And er you you you could hear them patting this butter outside a shop you know , it was a lovely sound on marble slabs and they were patting away at this butter . |
| 11 | In the coffee bar she and Susan were laughing together at a story in the newspaper . |
| 12 | All the time his eyes were laughing down at her and she suddenly flushed when she realised how she must look , lying there on the grass . |
| 13 | The couple were walking home at midnight in February when Watson struck . |
| 14 | Suddenly , the dark eyes were twinkling across at her . |
| 15 | HUNDREDS of people were checking in at New York 's JFK airport , but one face stood out from the crowd . |
| 16 | We were climbing away at a very gentle angle and I could not understand why I could not move the controls . |
| 17 | We were appearing together at a literary lunch in Cleethorpes — he was promoting the latest edition of his diaries — and someone was playing the organ whilst we were eating . |
| 18 | It was as if you were swimming out at sea with a piece of string tied round your middle attached to someone on the shore . |
| 19 | The wolves were howling closer at hand . |
| 20 | The shares were coasting along at above 400p and looking like going better after a string of tipsters recommendations . |
| 21 | Then , as they approached , he realized that they were looking not at him , but past him at something farther off . |
| 22 | Only I saw him sigh , for Lili and Robert were looking not at him but at the walls , and he found me too negligible to bother to disguise his ennui . |
| 23 | I walked over and looked out of the window into the yard below where several of the neighbours were looking up at me . |
| 24 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 25 | Perhaps on a hundredth of those thousand times , seeing her there , it had moved him to think how in so many towns like Odborough men were looking up at her as they shut shops or walked home from mills and mines . |
| 26 | All three men were looking up at a newly stained wallaba beam which supported the terrace room . |
| 27 | The ceiling had been removed and we were looking up at where the roof of the house once had been . |
| 28 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 29 | All the time those steady , golden eyes had fascinated her — and now they were looking steadily at her along the barrel of a gun . |
| 30 | He had blue eyes , she knew , because Sue had told her , and the blue eyes were looking straight at her and they were smiling . |