Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House will recall that in the latter part of last year both my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State outlined measures to be taken by both the Government and mortgage lenders with the excellent aim of reducing the level of repossessions that were occurring at that time . |
| 2 | Memory and imagination were grappling at each other 's throats , and these people would lose if he lay here much longer . |
| 3 | or whatever , just let them know roughly what you 're doing , cos , all they get is a tape , it gives them an idea of what sort of things were happening at that time , any words they ca n't pick up if she 's cooking , maybe that 's something she was making or whatever , erm , in the please write the first names and details , why you know them , of all the people speaking on this side of the tape , in order in which they speak on the tape in the first , first instance , right , you know , so now Carla , my husband , myself , Lee and , you do n't need to repeat them again after that |
| 4 | Again the two brothers were pushing at each other and as they all mounted the steps Ellen stepped and walked by the side of her son , something she was in the habit of doing whenever they were in company , and which Joe had been aware of from the time she had recovered after his uncle 's death . |
| 5 | The backs of my legs were trembling at that time , but this was probably as much due to the cold as to the feeling of betrayal that had invaded my being . |
| 6 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 7 | Erm , when we were looking at all the markers like erm , |
| 8 | We were looking at that last night . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not sure I approve of the way you were looking at that visitor , ’ he went on , bending towards her and speaking quietly . |
| 10 | He were looking at that bus . |
| 11 | I were looking at that one |
| 12 | Claire and Kezia were looking at each other and saying nothing . |
| 13 | Dad had turned away , and Mum and Mrs Fry were looking at each other like conspirators . |
| 14 | Circle members were looking at each other with slowly dawning horror and suspicion . |
| 15 | They were looking at each other and touching each other in such a funny way . |
| 16 | They were looking at each other . |
| 17 | The men were in the same position , but now they were looking at each other . |
| 18 | And we were looking at each other . |
| 19 | Incidentally there was some goss in a sunday paper that Leeds were looking at another keeper ( from the lower divisions … cant remember who ) . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | Now if we were looking at these the other way up right if somebody gave you the triangle |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ O Sydney wouldst thou were living at this hour ! ’ |
| 24 | The teachers were shouting at each other and scrambling up the shelves but getting nowhere . |
| 25 | But the other two Palestinians were shouting at each other in Hebrew . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | I do not forget the other unions which were going at that present time helped us out quite a bit . |
| 29 | Perhaps they 'd never know that they were moving at all . |
| 30 | The birds were feeding at all compass points around the county , as had been suspected . |