Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] at [art] open [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the other bedroom , Carrie and Anna were listening at the open window , both doing their best to suppress giggles . |
| 3 | When the delegates assembled for the Special Conference on August 15th they heard a lot of revolutionary-sounding rhetoric from leaders who knew that they were kicking at an open door . |
| 4 | If the National Health Service Management Executive was to tackle this issue it might find that it was pushing at an open door . |
| 5 | A man was sitting at an open window where he could watch the road . |
| 6 | He was standing at the open window in his pyjamas , the shotgun in his hand , staring out at the front field where the black splash of a jackdaw lay on the white ground beneath the ash tree . |
| 7 | I was working at the Open University as Pro-Vice-Chancellor in charge of student affairs . |