Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
2 | Many of the instrumental numbers were so relaxed , they looked like they were amusing themselves at a family party and when Harry told everyone to stand up as he bopped around the stage in his black silk suit , everyone did as they were told . |
3 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
4 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
5 | So erm I do n't whether or not I s I still do n't think they were ultimately revolutionary , I think they were just erm people who they think were exploiting them at the time sort of erm you know in a certain situation |
6 | By the end of the tour kids were throwing themselves at the stage like little ‘ kamikazis ’ . |
7 | We were following them at a good clip . |
8 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
9 | Trippy was meeting somebody at a club down at Camden Lock but he could n't remember who or exactly where . |
10 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | I would n't get the opportunity to find out who else was calling me at the same time . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
15 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
16 | 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 . |
17 | The official story is that he was playing it at a party and people wanted to hear it over and over . |
18 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
19 | It 's bigger than British Telecom which , at its profitable peak , was coining it at the rate of £90 a second . |
20 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
21 | At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 . |
22 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
23 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |