Example sentences of "was [v-ing] at [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Nevertheless , it is Adler rather than Freud who sums up for me what was happening at this stage of the disease . |
| 9 | Whatever was happening at this time , we were all isolated from each other . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ She said he was laughing at that time and she just wanted to frighten him . ’ |
| 12 | When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed . |
| 13 | Her love of coaching was developing at this stage too . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | I was looking at that bloke in the Metro going fuck me |
| 17 | The party was looking at full employment and a committee reported on the question in January 1944 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For a moment he thought that he was looking at another river — black , smooth and straight between its banks . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | Well what I was looking at this afternoon was your radiator comes through the floor . |
| 22 | The percentage of sales accounted for by each of these market segments is given below : At the 1986 level of demand the company was operating at full capacity , but today it has an excess of manufacturing capacity . |
| 23 | It was considered that rough copper was costing at that time £3 : 15s : 0d to produce but would sell for only £2 : 16s : 0d at the most . |
| 24 | The gang was pulling at each other , shouting obscenities , opening windows , smoking , drinking wine , pulling the bell cord and shouting for the bus to get under way . |
| 25 | His mind was moving at extraordinary speed . |
| 26 | Indeed , he was moving at top speed , as though some demon pursued him , but Robbie struggled — the only word for it — in his wake . |
| 27 | The plotting room was suddenly silent and the flag was flying at half mast for all to see on the garrison church at Moascar , Ismailia . |
| 28 | Talking of reruns Madam er deputy speaker , er I almost feel I 'm involved in a series of reruns with the er with the minister himself because er in a series of bills er committees in the eighties , standing committees on the building societies bill , on the banking bill , on the financial services er bill , as they all were , er he was speaking at that time er in favour of more effective regulation , backing the votes of this side er for kind , the kind of policies it 's introducing today . |
| 29 | Arghatun was speaking at considerable length , but every so often he paused and the man who sat on the tail of the cart asked what appeared to be a series of questions . |
| 30 | These formed far and away the largest group in the population of Europe , and it is the evidence that their numbers were expanding rapidly which offers the most substantial proof that the population of western Christendom as a whole was rising at this time . |