Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] at the " 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 | THE Inland Revenue 's bankruptcy petition against Sir Edward du Cann was dismissed yesterday at the High Court in London . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Heparin ( 2000 IU ) was given intravenously at the beginning of the procedure . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Chris was gazing wistfully at the passing landscape . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For all the assurances from those around me that I was perfect Legion material , I could not accept that the prestigious French Foreign Legion would have any need of the services of somebody whose military prowess was earned more at the bar than in the field . |
| 16 | He was educated locally at the National School and later at Wesley College , Sheffield , before becoming apprenticed to a wool spinner , John Brigg . |
| 17 | Bill was snoring away at the bar . |
| 18 | He was leaning against the casualty department door leering at the nurse who was dabbing gently at the three parallel scratches on Martin 's face . |
| 19 | THE devastating impact drink-driving can have on family life was stressed yesterday at the launch of the Department of Transport 's £700,000 Christmas advertising campaign . |
| 20 | There is even some doubt in some quarters as to whether in fact the unfortunate children were interred at Charfield , for it was said that an Army vehicle was noticed briefly at the scene of the accident , and it has been suggested that some of the remains , possibly those of the children , were removed amid the general confusion . |
| 21 | It was he who introduced me to the doyen of all Tibetan experts , Sir Charles Bell who , because of the war , was living quietly at The Old Charming Inn near Victoria while writing his last book . |
| 22 | ‘ So what do we do ? ’ asked Jimmy , looking back at the cabinet where it was wedged tight at the office door . |
| 23 | He came back from a serious back injury last season , but was injured again at the weekend . |
| 24 | A : to give him and he was writing just at the beginning he was — writing the whole — for each year of his life he wrote something in that had — had been invented or + |
| 25 | There is no doubt that the removal of the child by this mother was done precipitately at the very time when the child 's future care was already under consideration by the Ontario court . |
| 26 | BETTER nursing levels should be provided at the showpiece St John 's Hospital at Livingston , it was said yesterday at the end of a fatal accident inquiry . |
| 27 | He was looking closely at the picture in his hand . |
| 28 | It was revealed in the Belfast Telegraph last month that the airline was looking closely at the facilities on offer at the harbour terminal . |
| 29 | " There 's been a death in his family , " Tom said to the barman who was looking curiously at the pale , wide-eyed young man . |
| 30 | Mr Brunhead , who represented Thames Transit Limited stated that the City Council could just be proud of what it had done , for public transport , and he was aware that the city council was looking again at the balanced transport policy , and ways of making the city centre more viable for bus and for public transport . |