Example sentences of "was [v-ing] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The dark hair was greying at the sides , but these days some guys do it with a brush . |
| 3 | Something was happening at the windows . |
| 4 | An Essex Girl joke but everyone was laughing at the Carpets . |
| 5 | ‘ He may have done , we 'd not have heard him , ’ said the Leader , ‘ or thought he was shouting at the horses . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I was lookin' at the pichers . ’ |
| 10 | Amy was picking at the letters of the typewriter which had a persistent tendency to stick . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | But when Woodruffe took Woolley in to see it , nobody was looking at the trench-systems . |
| 13 | Was looking at the papers come straight in and |
| 14 | And I was looking at the drills , and |
| 15 | Ira Sanchez was looking at the birds ; then he glanced up to where a man was taking bets on the far side . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Even when he was looking at the ones like the Carmen at Ivinghoe ) that I think are my best ( or did then ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | While she was looking at the pictures , Griselda , Anna 's mother 's cat , came in and jumped on to the cat woman 's lap . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He was looking at the marks of a ladder just under her window . |
| 24 | In AD 685 St Cuthbert perambulated ‘ illis murum civitatis ’ and also saw a fountain working , implying that there was still a functioning aqueduct ; whether he was looking at the walls of a genuine town or of a fort is arguable . |
| 25 | Ashley was frowning at the flames which had begun to dart around his feet when two other drivers appeared , grabbed hold of an arm apiece and forcibly dragged him away . |
| 26 | His reddish hair was receding at the temples and his grey eyes rested upon Doreen with obvious relief . |
| 27 | Carey was pulling at the lapels . |
| 28 | Already it was whispering at the roots of grass , inciting it to rise , breathing on sheltered primroses , preaching its false gospel of resurrection and renewal , while underneath , the rot continued , the trampled snail returned to clay and beauty drew sustenance from a grave . |
| 29 | One hour later , after he had been refreshed and had listened patiently to his grateful client 's sad story about the awful life she was leading at the hands of a brutal husband , Broomhead was on his way . |
| 30 | There was brawling at the Republicans ' conference in West Berlin in July 1989 and in mid-October a splinter group calling itself the Democratic Republicans of Germany ( Demokratische Republikaner Deutschlands ) was formed in Hannover . |