Example sentences of "was [verb] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Further education in domestic science was given at the Women 's Department of King 's College , which opened in 1909 .
2 She felt such a clown , standing before them with that vulgar object between her open legs , but she slowly sank down towards the disgusting dildo and manipulated her thighs until the blunt tip was nudging at the portals of her reluctant orifice .
3 The dark hair was greying at the sides , but these days some guys do it with a brush .
4 He was educated at the Friends ' School , Rochester , and Grove House , Tottenham .
5 He was educated at the colleges of Leamington and Llandovery ( Carmarthenshire ) , entered Trinity College , Cambridge , and took his BA degree in 1857 and MA in 1867 .
6 Something was happening at the windows .
7 An Essex Girl joke but everyone was laughing at the Carpets .
8 The incident happened when a window was smashed at The Travellers Welcome in East Hagbourne .
9 Her mum 's 30-year-old wedding dress , altered to fit Joanne , was ruined at the cleaners and came back two inches shorter than when it went .
10 ‘ He may have done , we 'd not have heard him , ’ said the Leader , ‘ or thought he was shouting at the horses .
11 One moment he was shouting at the boys in the dorm to keep quiet , the next thing he was in the bathroom retching , then out on the landing , heaving and crying out .
12 Arghatun was shouting at the warriors who were grouped around the clearing , and twenty or so ran at once to one of the carts and pulled out a mass of folded fabric .
13 One of them was shouting at the men behind the counter now ; a stream of threats and curses in Kuo Yu — Mandarin — while the two behind him looked about them threateningly .
14 Was chucked at the police station .
15 ‘ I was lookin' at the pichers . ’
16 Amy was picking at the letters of the typewriter which had a persistent tendency to stick .
17 There was none , and the Red Army was defeated at the gates of Warsaw .
18 The first of the new sketches shows a man who was seen at the docks the Saturday before with a woman who resembled Carol .
19 ok , this poem 's called erm A Pause In A Moment Worn out days dressed in damp wheat , heavy coat pulling at tired shoulders , memory pushed back , brought forward in the click of a stick , pause in a moment , sunset reflected in eyes offering the warmth of recognition , so that poem started with the overcoat and that was the mood as I say , that was the mood of rejection erm and there was something about the way the old girl was looking at the women on the bridge , almost as if there was this recognition and , as it brought back memories that perhaps went or as black as the overcoat , erm the next er painting which I 'm going to read to you about is erm have you
20 But when Woodruffe took Woolley in to see it , nobody was looking at the trench-systems .
21 Was looking at the papers come straight in and
22 And I was looking at the drills , and
23 Ira Sanchez was looking at the birds ; then he glanced up to where a man was taking bets on the far side .
24 And I thought blimey , he 's a mongol , you know , when you 're looking at them , and then I was looking at the nurses and waiting for everyone to say something , and nobody said nothing .
25 Even when he was looking at the ones like the Carmen at Ivinghoe ) that I think are my best ( or did then ) .
26 She was looking at the maids carrying plates of singed meat to the young people and a servant who was bringing a tray full of raw steaks and sausages out from the house .
27 And then he told me a hilarious story about the way in which the chairman of the committee , I 'm not sure quite what particular branch in the world he 'd come from but he was looking at the figures , I suppose it was an accountant looking at the , the figures saying now why is it that the amount spent on district nurses has gone up ?
28 While she was looking at the pictures , Griselda , Anna 's mother 's cat , came in and jumped on to the cat woman 's lap .
29 And when I showed him a list of names I had collected ( why , I do not know , I had some notion of an appeal or inquiry ) , he read : ‘ Lynch , Connally , Egan , Kelly … etc. ’ and then he looked at me and added , ‘ I was looking at the lists of those who died in the recent great victories of general Gough at Aliwal and Sobraon in India .
30 I was looking at the vectors on either side of him to see if he had any friends and when I came back he was gone . ’
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