Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People were gazing at the still smoking ruins and chalked on a blackboard on the pavement was , ‘ Employees meeting at Victoria Hall , Rollestone Street tonight at 6 o'clock . ’ |
| 2 | We had filled our tank , and were eating at the open food-stall , or " warong " , just across the street when a dilapidated petrol-truck pulled in to top up the filling-station 's reservoir . |
| 3 | He threw himself forward , startling the beasts that were tearing at the prostrate girl on the ground , and arced his sword round with manic strength , tearing the blade through two of them with one swing . |
| 4 | I originally had this idea through the workers union in Manchester , and I was wondering if there were any comparative studies that were happening at the same time , and that would be really interesting to see how Oxford compares to other areas . |
| 5 | The right hon. Gentleman said that the previous set of talks had concluded , and that we were looking at the new basis for talks . |
| 6 | It seems that we now have serial correlation in our model as a result of including the dummy right , now we 've got to test statistic , I mean always look at the F version of the test , right , er our F statistic of three point seven six is significantly different from zero , right , that leaves seven percent level , so a five percent test we probably accept that we did n't have any serial correlations and we just got there by the skin of our teeth on that particular test erm yes , you could probably get away with this one , functional forms fine , no problem there , hetero skilasticity right , are F statistic three point nine but significantly different from zero that 's six percent level , right , so again we just scrape it if we were looking at the ninety five percent confidence it wants to be five percent if you are using as five percent significance level . |
| 7 | Erm presumably we are talking here next year , talking about sort of years effects , and I just wondered what would be the effects that in general terms if we were looking at the full year effects ? |
| 8 | Thus Janet D. , the daughter of a cooper , and James R. , a chauffeur and the son of a flourmill warehouseman , were living at the same street number when they married in 1911 . |
| 9 | Last time er it was er free distribution , so they needed someone to , workers for that and Sikh temple offered their services and er , I think they did the job very well because mostly we get a lot of volunteers round and er , many times I went their there was quite a big queue , er five or six people were serving at the same time . |
| 10 | In the other bedroom , Carrie and Anna were listening at the open window , both doing their best to suppress giggles . |
| 11 | It was Christmas 1781 when news filtered through that they were celebrating at the Red Lion at Bishopsgate ( an inn later to be made famous by Dickens 's Old Curiosity Shop ) . |
| 12 | A score of older cadets were waiting at the far end behind what was evidently a transparent plascrystal wall . |
| 13 | That shop you were going at the cheapest one . |
| 14 | As they came close we watched as they demonstrated the subtle science of reading the often obscure words of the hymn and seeing where they were going at the same time . |
| 15 | We did n't sit down thinking deeply about what we had been doing or anything like that , largely because we were teaching at the same time . |
| 16 | A couple of punks on the far side , also waiting to cross , were pointing at the oblivious Slater and laughing . |
| 17 | You were staying at the Imperial when I phoned you to set up the interview last week . |
| 18 | She and Tudor were staying at the Black Boar , Chollerton 's only hotel . |
| 19 | ‘ If the Americans ever find out what we were doing at the Jenner Clinic , ’ Hennessy told him gloomily , ‘ I wo n't even make it that far . ’ |
| 20 | Put that down and we thought right draw the circle , space it out equally , six equal angles is what we were doing at the same time as six equal arcs , all at sixty degrees , or all at one sixth of three sixty . |
| 21 | In 1990 , Heritage Minister , David Mellor said the press were drinking at the last chance saloon . |
| 22 | Environmentalists and fishermen were protesting at the devastating effects of the Spanish and Italian drift-net fishery for swordfish . |
| 23 | Over 500 of the company 's workers were protesting at the possible closure of the British-controlled company , following reports that its main creditor bank had threatened to withdraw funding . |
| 24 | Nalgo members were protesting at the proposed closure of a 24-hour crisis intervention centre . |
| 25 | All over Greenwich and down into Deptford and along in Woolwich , people were protesting at the sudden heat . |
| 26 | The demonstrators were protesting at the imminent loss of 5,000 jobs in the region in the mining , steel , shipbuilding and fertilizer industries , and expressing fears for the future of at least half of Cartagana 's active workforce of 60,000 . |
| 27 | Erm I 'm not saying that er there were n't problems in security and using public transport and fear of using public transport after dark , but we were quite surprised that compared with the rest of the U K it was erm not acceptable but it gave us an indication on , on where to go from there on , erm and also I think er the important factor that in the lower in Strathclyde that we 've actually consulted women in terms of er what they want and what they need er in the transport world erm in public transport and that 's not lip service we 've actually had discussions groups and that information has been fed into the large erm public transport review that were undertaking at the present time . |
| 28 | Three or four people without seats were standing at the far dome car end , including the actress Angelica . |
| 29 | Two men were standing at the further end of the clearing shooting at a wand . |
| 30 | Again , er they were talking at the higher reach of our number |