Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] at some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beneath it , two geese were pecking at some grain . |
| 2 | When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed . |
| 3 | I was looking at some last night and they had erm privately owned cottages or |
| 4 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 5 | So if we were sitting round this table in ten years time , we would actually be talking about what was commonplace , not what was coming at some distant and far off point ? |
| 6 | As a result over-capacity was running at some 10 million tonnes a year and coal stocks ( including the 10 million tonne national coal reserve to safeguard West German energy supply ) were reaching levels of well over 30 million tonnes . |
| 7 | Sistelcom 's president , Victoria Reinoso , announced that investment in the new system was running at some $3.5m per annum , and acknowledged that the system would run at a loss for the first two years . |
| 8 | Groaning as if in physical pain , she rocked herself back and forth in her chair — her teeth bared as if she was grimacing at some diabolical joke . |