Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brain was scarcely working at all . |
| 2 | I was just looking at that , going right off the subject but er that Uri Geller ? |
| 3 | I was just looking at that tree , the way it 's stunted up there , I have n't really noticed before . |
| 4 | I was just looking at some of the prices they want for the property . |
| 5 | Perhaps most important is the need to recognise that a balance of forces was usually operating at any one time : pressure groups for change , politicians , civil servants and individual personalities all had a part to play . |
| 6 | If Connors had spoken quietly before , he was hardly uttering at all now . |
| 7 | Simon Cormack , seeing his rescuers approaching him , slowed until he was hardly jogging at all . |
| 8 | Her hair was hardly showing at all because it was also crammed out of sight beneath a very masculine hat that matched her suit . |
| 9 | At the time he was hardly painting at all , concentrating on drawing and sculpting . |
| 10 | Leith was still gasping at that when he added , ‘ To get to the reason why I sent for you — ’ |
| 11 | All of us in the team knew that we were totally dependent on the Lord for any ‘ success ’ — but it was still reassuring at each crusade when Walter would murmur to me as he surveyed the huge first night crowds — ‘ Well , Harvey , that 's your job safe till the next one . |
| 12 | And William George of course was still practising at that time . |
| 13 | The post of chief whip was exceptionally demanding at this time because of the constitutional crisis following the Lords ' rejection of the 1909 budget , and the Liberals ' dependence on the Irish party . |
| 14 | Prof Lindemann ( later Lord Cherwell ) was also looking at this state of affairs and originated a study of some 600 aiming-point night photographs to be analysed of our best results to date . |
| 15 | He then broke away as Lambert was also firing at this aircraft , and watched it crash into the sea . |
| 16 | The owner was angrily shouting at some boys to stop bumping the cars deliberately . |
| 17 | He was now pointing at some large pigeons , coloured very light blue-grey . |
| 18 | Even though the task — one that involved pedalling on a stationary bicycle — was equally demanding at all times , it was felt by the volunteers to be most difficult to achieve in the middle of the night . |