Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 2 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 3 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 4 | Patrick squirmed uncomfortably in the jumper and the trousers , which were at least two sizes too large for him — he felt as if they were going to fall down at any moment . |
| 5 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 6 | It did n't matter that they were coming to stare down at her and Ember with the ugly blueness of ghoulish satisfaction on their heads . |
| 7 | They way he just took my hair in one hand , while we were standing looking up at that God-awful window in the great hall , and turned my head to him , and pulled me close ; tongue down my throat before I knew what was happening , and there was something adolescent and desperate beneath all that working-class directness , but Jesus , I felt wanted … |
| 8 | The Prince and McPhee had walked on to the top of the bank and were standing looking down at the river . |
| 9 | The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m . |
| 10 | In an attempt to make good the teacher shortage schoolchildren were encouraged to stay on at school to do teacher training by circular No. 1654 in 1947 . |
| 11 | The Department 's share of the costs of approved courses was intended to average out at 25% . |
| 12 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 13 | Then a car was heard pulling up at the gate ; either the bridal car or their uncle had come . |
| 14 | An 18-year-old woman post room worker escaped uninjured when the package she was handling went off at the offices which were occupied by SNP demonstrators last week . |
| 15 | But a car was seen slowing down at what might have been a pick-up point on the A12 . |
| 16 | He was seen to bend down at two drains near his home . |
| 17 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 18 | Far more important was the fact that this baby girl , born two weeks after the defeat of a Scottish army by the English at Solway Moss , and at a time when her remarkable father James V was lying burnt out at the age of thirty in his glorious hunting-lodge at Falkland , was to be within a week of her birth queen of the Scots . |
| 19 | I did n't know quite where or how or with whom but I was going to turn in at the Gendarmerie and take it from there . |
| 20 | ‘ The first time ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ I poured half a tin of Golden Syrup on to the seat of the chair the Trunchbull was going to sit on at prayers . |
| 21 | Of course , he had said he was going to help out at MacDowell 's Dad 's wallpaper shop . |
| 22 | There was no way I was going to walk out at the end of all that . |
| 23 | I was going to get up at 5.30 anyway so it did n't make all that much difference . |
| 24 | Recipes for this " black tart stuff " as it was called appear in at least two cookery books of the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 25 | but er , I do n't know how he got out yesterday and I 've never , never know him parked down the road , not at all , anyway we got , I got home and erm , I said to Bev you know , right go and phone Lesley see if she 's in and then I did a bit of housework and then the phone rang , ooh , we was aiming to go out at one and that must of been ten to one , and it was Liz |
| 26 | A Ford Orion car stolen from Middlesbrough was found burnt out at Black Man Corner between Dalton-on-Tees , near Richmond , and Great Smeaton , near Northallerton . |
| 27 | I was asked to turn out at Coventry and I agreed because I 'm a professional player and that 's my job — but I was n't feeling 100 per cent . |
| 28 | I stared at him because he sounded so cold , but he was sitting looking down at the glass which he held on his knees and I could n't see his face . |
| 29 | That is also good news for John Collins , who was forced to fill in at left-back during Galloway 's injury and Mowbray 's suspension . |
| 30 | It was forced to touch down at Killyhoy Beach , north west Donegal . |