Example sentences of "was [v-ing] at [art] man " in BNC.

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1 Cameron wanted time to think ; he was in a turmoil of emotions ; he felt for Sandy 's grievance even while he was blenching at the man 's mad certainty that a day of reckoning was near .
2 She was looking at a man in an evening clothe .
3 Athelstan felt he was looking at a man already under the shadow of Death 's soft , black wing .
4 While Kee was looking at the man , Karen explained .
5 He was looking at the man , screaming without being heard , blood coming from between his fingers , when Paul himself was attacked by something thin and cold and slippery that whipped round his neck and stayed there , tugging , as if it wanted to pull his head off .
6 He was jabbing at the man with the clenched fist of his other hand , and Gómez , taken by surprise , was trying to hold him off .
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