Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.

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1 I were just looking at this .
2 My brain was scarcely working at all .
3 I was just looking at that , going right off the subject but er that Uri Geller ?
4 I was just looking at that tree , the way it 's stunted up there , I have n't really noticed before .
5 I was just looking at some of the prices they want for the property .
6 Perhaps most important is the need to recognise that a balance of forces was usually operating at any one time : pressure groups for change , politicians , civil servants and individual personalities all had a part to play .
7 If Connors had spoken quietly before , he was hardly uttering at all now .
8 Simon Cormack , seeing his rescuers approaching him , slowed until he was hardly jogging at all .
9 Her hair was hardly showing at all because it was also crammed out of sight beneath a very masculine hat that matched her suit .
10 At the time he was hardly painting at all , concentrating on drawing and sculpting .
11 Leith was still gasping at that when he added , ‘ To get to the reason why I sent for you — ’
12 All of us in the team knew that we were totally dependent on the Lord for any ‘ success ’ — but it was still reassuring at each crusade when Walter would murmur to me as he surveyed the huge first night crowds — ‘ Well , Harvey , that 's your job safe till the next one .
13 And William George of course was still practising at that time .
14 The post of chief whip was exceptionally demanding at this time because of the constitutional crisis following the Lords ' rejection of the 1909 budget , and the Liberals ' dependence on the Irish party .
15 Prof Lindemann ( later Lord Cherwell ) was also looking at this state of affairs and originated a study of some 600 aiming-point night photographs to be analysed of our best results to date .
16 He then broke away as Lambert was also firing at this aircraft , and watched it crash into the sea .
17 The owner was angrily shouting at some boys to stop bumping the cars deliberately .
18 He was now pointing at some large pigeons , coloured very light blue-grey .
19 Even though the task — one that involved pedalling on a stationary bicycle — was equally demanding at all times , it was felt by the volunteers to be most difficult to achieve in the middle of the night .
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