Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er you you you could hear them patting this butter outside a shop you know , it was a lovely sound on marble slabs and they were patting away at this butter . |
| 2 | Cameron and Menzies were looking seriously at each other . |
| 3 | The trucks themselves had to be manhandled down the steep rock-strewn defile and as the men were sweating away at this in the hot sun an Italian aircraft picked them up . |
| 4 | There were smiles all round , we were smiling secretly at each other . |
| 5 | After her disastrous first year at the academy , it was something of a miracle that Mildred was returning there at all . |
| 6 | And she was puffing away at those wretched cigarettes like there was no tomorrow . |
| 7 | Well she was staying overnight at some wee girl 's house and I 'd say well that 's alright as long as you 're as long as , you know , that know the wee girl 's mother maybe , she 's a daughter a wee bit older than Lindsey herself who had the , but no this mother see she was divorced and going with these men and let her daughter stay out to half eleven , and Lindsey was , n was n't in her house till half eleven . |
| 8 | In fact , no indication that anyone was staying there at all . |
| 9 | have to wait twenty five to eight before he 'd come in , how he was coming here at that time I do n't know . |
| 10 | She could not imagine him chasing after other women once he had committed himself , could not imagine him being so insensitive as to leave a woman — his woman — wondering why he was so late arriving home , or whether he was coming home at all . |
| 11 | The treatment of mental illness was advancing considerably at that time , and it probably contributed more than the legislative change to reducing both the use of compulsory procedures and the incidence of long stays in hospital . |
| 12 | The rules mean that police would have to take control of the computer as soon as possible after the offence and establish that it was working properly at all times . |