Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 2 | I was weathering the winter and believed that if there was anything in my lung , then at the very worst I was holding it at bay . |
| 3 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 4 | I was telling them at school . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Did he rebel because he guessed I was throwing you at him ? ’ |
| 7 | if I was recording you at this precise moment ? |
| 8 | Cos I was shaking mine at him |
| 9 | Smiling at her over people 's shoulders while she could not move because someone was telling her at length how much she must be missing her mother . |
| 10 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 11 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 12 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 13 | I 've put in stuff for her from all over , and she always thanks me , not like she was paying me at all . |
| 14 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 15 | We were following them at a good clip . |
| 16 | Well they were doing it at eleven o'clock last night , it must of been something like that because I heard every word |
| 17 | In the taxi , while he was dropping her at her small house in Fulham , she made an effort to regain some inch of the indispensable contact she had squandered , but there seemed no way of doing it . |
| 18 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 19 | Benjamin 's eyes narrowed as if , for the first time , he was judging me at my real worth . |
| 20 | we 're used to a lot of Shakespeare 's archaisms because he was studying them at A level and Shakespeare 's got so a special sort of band of them that he uses . |
| 21 | The official story is that he was playing it at a party and people wanted to hear it over and over . |
| 22 | Ian said he was fetching her at lunchtime . ’ |