Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Fleischmann received a fax from Harwell and learned that they were seeing nothing at all . |
| 2 | But the means by which the Futurists were expressing themselves at this point were largely borrowed from the Cubists , and occasionally in some less well-informed criticism , the two terms became synonymous . |
| 3 | ‘ Except for one other memorable occasion , of course — when you were wearing nothing at all . ’ |
| 4 | Well they were doing it at eleven o'clock last night , it must of been something like that because I heard every word |
| 5 | Most infants ( 92% ) excreting cotinine at three weeks were excreting it also at one year ; moreover , 61% of infants not excreting cotinine at three months were excreting it at one year . |
| 6 | To others , including Tennyson and Arnold , it seemed as if ‘ the ringing grooves of change ’ were carrying them at break-neck speed into a future full of uncertainty and alarm . |
| 7 | I 've put in stuff for her from all over , and she always thanks me , not like she was paying me at all . |
| 8 | The one , the thing that I actually picked up on is tt erm in the greeting part of it you , you started very well and then Martin seemed to take control and you almost felt as if Martin was interviewing you at one point and erm you tried to get the control back and that 's when you went straight into the statement of purpose , because Martin was taking control . |
| 9 | He had on the long white cloak which signified to the audience that he was wearing nothing at all . |
| 10 | Gaston , the committee man , who had been eyeing Ingrid the entire evening , trying to discern if she was wearing anything at all under the gold waistcoat , hurried over and pulled her to her feet . |
| 11 | ‘ She was doing nothing at all to help this baby in such distress . |
| 12 | This I 'm pleased to say is being done , a meeting has been arranged with British Aerospace , it should have taken place on Monday er Mike was deputizing me at that meeting and I 'm waiting to see what the outcome of that meeting is . |
| 13 | if I was recording you at this precise moment ? |
| 14 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 15 | But as I went on reading I found that was n't what Clem was telling me at all . ’ |
| 16 | As usual it was impossible to tell from Adam 's granite features just how he was feeling — if he was feeling anything at all , she thought savagely . |