Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions . |
| 7 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Marc was stamping about at the top of the steps , knocking the snow off his boots . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |
| 13 | It was caught up at the neck into a huge thick collar of silver fur . |
| 14 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 15 | The operation was carried out at the National Heart the next day , with the odds improving and I was then transferred to Harefield for five weeks . |
| 16 | Servicing of steam locomotive No. 90 was carried out at the Severn Valley Railway Works at Bridgenorth where a complete new firebox and boiler was made and then shipped to Galway for installation . |
| 17 | A pioneering and influential study in this field was carried out at the University of Birmingham by Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) . |
| 18 | Considerable work was carried out at the old carding mill . |
| 19 | The research reported here was carried out at the request of the Scottish Office Education Department in June and in November 1991 . |
| 20 | Further modernisation was carried out at the Imperial Grain Warehouse . |
| 21 | This initial mobilisation was carried out at the beginning of March with all staff receiving company induction , full food hygiene training and safety induction and familiarisation on board the two installations . |
| 22 | He took a taxi the twelve miles into Brighton , and was dropped off at the Willett Collection , housed in the town 's museum . |
| 23 | ‘ The sort of people John Smith was winding up at the Trade Union Conference about a return to a Golden Age , when they were back in the driving seat and great rights for their members , and a friendly government again — some of those people are beginning to make noises . |
| 24 | He glanced from time to time out of the window , as if to see what was happening down at the jetty . |
| 25 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 26 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |
| 27 | An emissary from London to St Petersburg was picked up at the imperial frontier and a large number of compromising letters fell into the hands of tsarist investigators . |
| 28 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |
| 29 | Even Trepper was captured and the Rote Kapelle was wound up at the end of 1942 . |
| 30 | Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people . |