Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now if we go back to two years ago on the question of whether or not we should accept erm almost do n't think you 'll get any reply the professional advice of an officer , two years ago or so we had the professional advice of an officer , we were looking at yearly report of the er inspector and |
| 32 | The file we were looking at earlier ? |
| 33 | Incidentally there was some goss in a sunday paper that Leeds were looking at another keeper ( from the lower divisions … cant remember who ) . |
| 34 | Tt er if , if , if you go back to some of the things we were looking at last term er er this idea of commercialization tt er argue that the south was a very different type of country to the north , that it is commercialized at least to a much greater extent |
| 35 | Now in this particular period if you were looking at these figures just like this , what would be your automatic reaction in terms of the type of holidays we ought to be providing ? |
| 36 | Now if we were looking at these the other way up right if somebody gave you the triangle |
| 37 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 38 | Manufacturers were looking at different techniques in an effort to beat off their rivals . |
| 39 | ‘ Well ’ — I hated myself for responding to his interest — ‘ we were looking at different kinds of organisational hierarchy and how to construct optimal decision-making procedures in corporate contexts . ’ |
| 40 | I live in France now , and I 'm married to a Frenchman , but my introduction to drama was through an amateur dramatic society in Stanmore , where we were living at one time . |
| 41 | By 1883 the Titfords were living at 2 Mount Terrace , Curry Rivel , where Benjamin was supplementing his income — a trick he had learned from his father ? — by acting as an insurance agent for the ‘ Lancashire ’ . |
| 42 | When Minton became friends with her and Rodrigo , they were living at 155 Old Church Street , not far from the popular Queen 's Elm pub in the Fulham Road . |
| 43 | ‘ O Sydney wouldst thou were living at this hour ! ’ |
| 44 | The teachers were shouting at each other and scrambling up the shelves but getting nowhere . |
| 45 | But the other two Palestinians were shouting at each other in Hebrew . |
| 46 | 5–8 Field grown new potatoes were selling at one shilling per stone of 14 lbs , but owing to the abundance of grass there were few cattle at the Bridgend July market . |
| 47 | Investigation of town plans reveals that many cities were growing at this time ; the records reveal increasing long-distance trade ; in the Mediterranean there was a growth of the commerce of the Italian cities so striking that Professor Lopez has labelled it and its northern counterpart ‘ the commercial revolution ’ . |
| 48 | The blades of the helicopter were turning at low revs as Ace bent low to put in his bags . |
| 49 | ‘ While the show was going on they were peering at other faces in the audience and saying things like ‘ I think I can see my mother ’ and ‘ I think I can see my uncle . ’ |
| 50 | Now they were heading at top speed towards treacherous , shifting , waterlogged marsh ! |
| 51 | Forward scouts reported that the enemy were massing at two points ahead , at their large camp below the castle hill and also nearer the town , but that the Yair ford itself was not guarded . |
| 52 | ‘ Because she was premature , as they were pulling at this thing I was thinking , ‘ Do n't touch … ’ , and one worries that something might go wrong , and then there 's this tremendous sense of relief , and elation and exhaustion . |
| 53 | They were waiting at Ruthven Water . |
| 54 | I do not forget the other unions which were going at that present time helped us out quite a bit . |
| 55 | So if you were going at sixty four , you know , about a millimetre before the sign you have to be going at fifty five a millimetre after the sign er and you can be pulled up by a State Trooper as I was pulled up , quite unjustly I felt . |
| 56 | Perhaps they 'd never know that they were moving at all . |
| 57 | The times measured by these different clocks would agree almost exactly if they were moving slowly with respect to each other — but the times measured by different clocks would differ significantly if the clocks were moving at high speed . |
| 58 | The birds were feeding at all compass points around the county , as had been suspected . |
| 59 | Worcester were wobbling at 33 for three but Hick guided them to 158 for five . |
| 60 | Detectives say they now believe the three man involved were all travellers … and were staying at various sites like this around Milton Keynes . |