Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] at this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ O Sydney wouldst thou were living at this hour ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And they were working at this Pit . |
| 6 | Whatever was happening at this time , we were all isolated from each other . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , it is Adler rather than Freud who sums up for me what was happening at this stage of the disease . |
| 8 | Her love of coaching was developing at this stage too . |
| 9 | The Second Book of his Concerti ( 1607 ) actually contains a monodic ‘ Missa Dominicalis ’ with continuo , though his textures are often contrapuntal and have no very close affinity , except in coloratura , with the secular monody which was developing at this time . |
| 10 | I was looking at this , and not at where I was putting my feet . |
| 11 | erm when I was looking at this , this picture of the , of the Brettan Girls , I erm , I was really particularly struck by the bo , the mild head of one of the dancers and the fact that she was rubbing her , her heal , erm and it gave me a voice for , for this poem , I was also drawn by the dismissal , there 's a goose in the painting , there 's four , four geese and one of them is dismissing the , the , the winner outright and erm I found his look very , very interesting and , and I could n't help but compare the lies of these four dancers with those within erm from the later period as the eye that , that , that Gaugin painted later on . |
| 12 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 13 | ‘ I was looking at this . ’ |
| 14 | Well what I was looking at this afternoon was your radiator comes through the floor . |
| 15 | I was looking at this one with the |
| 16 | I was looking at this . |
| 17 | These formed far and away the largest group in the population of Europe , and it is the evidence that their numbers were expanding rapidly which offers the most substantial proof that the population of western Christendom as a whole was rising at this time . |
| 18 | Andrew hagans was staying at this bail hostel when he murdered Anna McGurk . |
| 19 | All I was doing at this time , if I was n't at school , was watching TV , listening to music , reading or walking , with Dawn as my constant companion . |
| 20 | However , most of the work he was doing at this time was of a minor nature . |
| 21 | Henry 's aftershave was overpowering at this range . |
| 22 | And I was working at this day and being a Monday or a Tuesday after the Mo Sunday meeting . |