Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | AT ALTHORP — pronounced Altrup or Althrup , but never Althorp — the flags were flying at half mast , mourning the death of Johnny , the 8th Earl Spencer . |
| 32 | If it were travelling at any other velocity , it would either move out into deep space , or crash into the Sun , or move into another orbit . |
| 33 | Average prices had fallen by about 2% and , despite cost-cutting , were continuing at these levels in April . |
| 34 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 35 | There was nothing interesting about what they were doing at all . |
| 36 | ‘ I wanted each chapter to be separate , but I did n't want it to be a set of separate short stories ; so I had to keep an enormous notebook of who they all were and what they were doing at any given time . |
| 37 | FitzAlan and de Villiers were glaring at each other across her , but as she made a move to sit up Isabel saw the scowl fade from Simon 's face and he reached down a hand to steady her . |
| 38 | She had turned to him now and they were staring at each other . |
| 39 | So they stood and their hands clasped at the baggage rack above their heads , and Millet saw the eyes of a fellow traveller flit to the girl 's features as if they were staring at those magazines on the high shelf behind the newsagent 's counter . |
| 40 | Beneath it , two geese were pecking at some grain . |
| 41 | Mrs Short : The way they were talking at that meeting George is going to residential school . |
| 42 | We were giggling at each other 's pictures and I started to remember the amount of fun we used to have together . |
| 43 | The workers who were fiddling at this particular factory were able to keep their self-image and conduct their working lives as good citizens ; like most unconvicted white-collar criminals they were not stigmatised . |
| 44 | We could n't see the track they were following at all — amazing sense of direction they must have in the Jungle . |
| 45 | And they were working at this Pit . |
| 46 | Claudia could have warned him to beware of Roman when that note entered his voice but Dana and Garry were smiling at each other in mutual satisfaction . |
| 47 | He remembers the Very High Frequency ( VHF ) radio was far superior to the kit the RAF was using at that time . |
| 48 | Erm he was using at that time an R registered Ford Escort er , which was er , only insured third party , fire and theft . |
| 49 | Erm he was using at that time an R registered Ford Escort er which was er only insured third party fire and theft . |
| 50 | As for her voice , it seemed to be down at her elbow somewhere , and it was only by a kind of automatic reflex that she was singing at all . |
| 51 | The United pilots ' union had attempted unsuccessfully to finance a similar bid a year ago when the airline was trading at less than half the final sale price . |
| 52 | May and she she an old boy come in in the week , Carole had Friday afternoon off an old boy was knocking at all these doors and something to do with erm put a tape recorder in your house |
| 53 | The historical texts were confined to enumerating the kings who lived in those troubled years and do not give any indication that something important was occurring at that time . |
| 54 | Now what I want to do is look at what was happening at that time and then try and explain using the determinants of demand what the patterns actually were . |
| 55 | generally speaking the nation had good ears , they knew what was what and they listened quite well , hear you deaf ones he 's describing them and look forth to see you blind once verse twenty it was a case of seeing many things , but you did not cheat watching and Daniel , verse twenty five , look it says there a little phrase near , half way through that he took no note , the nation took no note of what was happening at that time , but we know what happened to them , many of them , thousands , a million of them lost their lives did n't they ? |
| 56 | I do n't know of any boxing match that 's ever captured the interest of people and it was that night , course we never heard the result , not until we got to Egypt , you there was no wireless you see , you did n't know what was happening at all . |
| 57 | Whatever was happening at this time , we were all isolated from each other . |
| 58 | Nevertheless , it is Adler rather than Freud who sums up for me what was happening at this stage of the disease . |
| 59 | ‘ She said he was laughing at that time and she just wanted to frighten him . ’ |
| 60 | The man who owned the house was laughing at all this of course , cos it did look very funny apparently . |