Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here was the team which he had come to when it was struggling pathetically at the bottom of the First Division ; the team which he had made one of the greatest in the history of football , beaten by a fifth-rate side . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 3 | Bluestone is not mentioned by Wesley but a Methodist Society was formed there at an early date . |
| 4 | THE Inland Revenue 's bankruptcy petition against Sir Edward du Cann was dismissed yesterday at the High Court in London . |
| 5 | Because everybody was treated equally at the start of their Legion service , Mike , who had learnt his killing in the bush war in Rhodesia , was treated the same as a South Vietnamese man who had never put on a uniform in his life . |
| 6 | Heparin ( 2000 IU ) was given intravenously at the beginning of the procedure . |
| 7 | To prevent acidosis due to the operative trauma an infusion of a glucose-bicarbonate solution ( see below ) was given intra-arterially at a rate of 0.03 ml.min - 1 . |
| 8 | I know , but the appalling thing is that the address list was given out at the A G M and Christine 's phone number is on it . |
| 9 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 10 | They had joined a Gordian knot of vans , taxis , and automobiles that was inching forward at a pace that had set that little muscle in his jaw to knotting and unknotting . |
| 11 | Sue likes me … lots of people like me … when I was helping out at the meat counter the other week , Jim said we should go bowling one night . |
| 12 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 13 | Her hand lay gently on his shoulder , barely pressing against him , yet it seemed he was gathered there at the point of contact , his whole self focused in her touch . |
| 14 | I turned to share the wonder of it , but she was gazing up at the bloom of flame surging from the chimney 's mouth , and beyond where the evening-star glittered against the deepening blue sky . |
| 15 | He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions . |
| 16 | It was when I was gazing dully at the finger , the heel of my hand resting in an intercostal space , that I felt the faintest flutter from below . |
| 17 | Putting the ‘ corpse ’ down , she gave up and was gazing sadly at the small body when , about two minutes after its ‘ death ’ , it suddenly took a few very deep breaths and started to move about . |
| 18 | ‘ Mrs Wormwood is n't going to thank you for this , ’ the man said as he led her into the sitting-room where a large platinum-blonde woman was gazing rapturously at the TV screen . |
| 19 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 20 | Chris was gazing wistfully at the passing landscape . |
| 21 | Court Four of the Royal Courts of Justice in London was packed with judges and barristers to hear the support lent to Lord Lane , who announced in February that he was stepping down at the age of 73 , 18 months before the compulsory retirement age for judges . |
| 22 | Marc was stamping about at the top of the steps , knocking the snow off his boots . |
| 23 | These carvings have been off display for many years as it was discovered that atmospheric pollution , even within the museum , was eating away at the stone . |
| 24 | The pattern for these accusations had been set by the young Liberal Charles Masterman in The Heart of the Empire ( 1902 ) where he had thundered out his warning of inevitable decline as the result of the ‘ perpetual lowering in the vitality of the Imperial Race in the great cities of the Kingdom through over-crowding in room and in area ’ : What was never entirely clear was whether it was merely a physical deterioration that was eating away at the ‘ Imperial Race ’ , or if a moral decay was not also in evidence . |
| 25 | I was on my own now , faced with that half-obliterated turn at the V-point of the side gorge where water pouring over the track was eating away at the surface . |
| 26 | As was pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , they shared classical criminology 's view that the purpose of penal practice was effective crime control . |
| 27 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 28 | THE ROAD was hidden slightly at the bend , behind the overhang of the rowan trees and they came across the barred gate a little too quickly , crossing the bridge before realising that it was now behind . |
| 29 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |
| 30 | It was caught up at the neck into a huge thick collar of silver fur . |