Example sentences of "was [v-ing] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembers the Very High Frequency ( VHF ) radio was far superior to the kit the RAF was using at that time . |
| 2 | Erm he was using at that time an R registered Ford Escort er , which was er , only insured third party , fire and theft . |
| 3 | Erm he was using at that time an R registered Ford Escort er which was er only insured third party fire and theft . |
| 4 | The other man moved over to join them , gripping Connelly 's right arm so that his hand was groping at empty air . |
| 5 | The historical texts were confined to enumerating the kings who lived in those troubled years and do not give any indication that something important was occurring at that time . |
| 6 | In October 1927 , the young missionary was steaming at 15–20 knots towards Rangoon . |
| 7 | Now what I want to do is look at what was happening at that time and then try and explain using the determinants of demand what the patterns actually were . |
| 8 | generally speaking the nation had good ears , they knew what was what and they listened quite well , hear you deaf ones he 's describing them and look forth to see you blind once verse twenty it was a case of seeing many things , but you did not cheat watching and Daniel , verse twenty five , look it says there a little phrase near , half way through that he took no note , the nation took no note of what was happening at that time , but we know what happened to them , many of them , thousands , a million of them lost their lives did n't they ? |
| 9 | Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it is Adler rather than Freud who sums up for me what was happening at this stage of the disease . |
| 11 | Whatever was happening at this time , we were all isolated from each other . |
| 12 | In other words , awareness that something was happening at national level did not provide workable lines along which local managers could shape their own efforts . |
| 13 | ‘ She said he was laughing at that time and she just wanted to frighten him . ’ |
| 14 | Suddenly the section of the audience that was laughing at Italian children flinging spaghetti realised that everyone else had fallen silent . |
| 15 | When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed . |
| 16 | And Hugh Schonfield 's on-going series of studies of first-century Palestine was appearing at regular intervals throughout the 1970s . |
| 17 | He was driving at 100 k.p.h . |
| 18 | Vitor was tearing at jagged pieces of bodywork when a flame spurted from beneath . |
| 19 | Her love of coaching was developing at this stage too . |
| 20 | The Second Book of his Concerti ( 1607 ) actually contains a monodic ‘ Missa Dominicalis ’ with continuo , though his textures are often contrapuntal and have no very close affinity , except in coloratura , with the secular monody which was developing at this time . |
| 21 | The House of Lords was deliberating at that moment whether such people could legally be Trustees of a Church of England School ( it was eventually decided that they could not ) . |
| 22 | The girl lingered at a secondhand clothes shop and was looking at grubby petticoats displayed on iron rods by the doorway , when a young man dressed in a shabby tail coat and check trousers came along and paused beside her . |
| 23 | Rugby club chairman John Redmayne said the club was looking at alternative sites . |
| 24 | He said the Government was looking at other types of custodial sentence for young people . |
| 25 | I was looking at that bloke in the Metro going fuck me |
| 26 | Mrs Thatcher told M P's that the Government was looking at possible adjustments in the community charge . |
| 27 | The party was looking at full employment and a committee reported on the question in January 1944 . |
| 28 | My other half ordered from a catalogue disc drives to assemble compu , er a home computer and he was looking very carefully cos computer parts can be quite expensive and he was looking at national catalogue for the best prices . |
| 29 | For a moment he thought that he was looking at another river — black , smooth and straight between its banks . |
| 30 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |