Example sentences of "was [v-ing] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who on earth was thumping at the door like that early in the morning ? |
| 2 | Malc was kneeling at the altar and a price ticket of 39/11d ( nearly two quid ) decorated the sole of his shoe . |
| 3 | Poor Damien was kneeling at the entrance to the sanctuary screen , an easy target for someone lurking here with a crossbow . ’ |
| 4 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
| 5 | It was raining at the time . |
| 6 | A wind was gathering at the coast , preparing to sweep across the fields , lean against the few trees and race on over the road , across to the far side of the island . |
| 7 | Suddenly Angela , who was gazing at the red mack her mummy was holding out to her , gave a gasp . |
| 8 | While I was gazing at the chamber a schoolgirl who was touring the gallery with her father came up and asked me how it worked . |
| 9 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 10 | Maurin was gazing at the ceiling . |
| 11 | He was gazing at the woman with the strange , unblinking stare which meant he was working something out . |
| 12 | Lacuna was gazing at the screen . |
| 13 | Let me just close with some words from Matthew chapter nine in verse ten , he said that it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house behold many tax gatherers and sinners came and were dining with Jesus and his disciples , and when the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples , why is your teacher eating with the tax gatherers and sinners ? |
| 14 | Mind you , I was pretty out of order at some of his famous parties , out-drinking George Brown and all those Labour ministers that he was courting at the time . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And M was stabbing at the table top with her secateurs and I could see she was white with rage . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The dark hair was greying at the sides , but these days some guys do it with a brush . |
| 19 | ‘ Wenner ’ , recalls Marcuson , ‘ was fuming at the bit . |
| 20 | Within seconds one of the porters was knocking at the door to escort us down in case of trouble . |
| 21 | Someone was knocking at the door . |
| 22 | Doctor Rossitter came and dressed Susan 's arm , which he said was much better ; and in the afternoon Breeze left her sister safely tucked up and she was knocking at the Vicarage door on the stroke of three . |
| 23 | Then she did get me an appointment with this new clinic that was opening at the hospital , but it was too late . |
| 24 | Some worried employees even called news organisations in Dallas and Fort Worth to find out what was happening at the company . |
| 25 | in what was happening at the door . |
| 26 | And a settin' in was what was happening at the pub — the reason it got closed . |
| 27 | Something was happening at the windows . |
| 28 | Glancing at the old man , Jack suddenly realized he was just trying to distract him , to prevent his mind leaping ahead to whatever was happening at the hospital . |
| 29 | In my experience , the only occasions when I have stalled unexpectedly and known what was happening at the time , have been in very fierce stubble fires and dust devils . |
| 30 | We did n't know what was happening at the time , we thought he was choking . |