Example sentences of "were [v-ing] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one were gazing at the vertex of a tetrahedron , would the view be different ? |
| 2 | The French guns were firing at the flanks of the Prince 's position ; aiming at the farmhouses to east and west . |
| 3 | ( Notice that this requires that each of the original companies were producing at an output below minimum efficient scale . ) |
| 4 | The Trunchbull was in such a rage that her face had taken on a boiled colour and little flecks of froth were gathering at the corners of her mouth . |
| 5 | Other passengers were queueing at the check-point , most of them looking back as if that glimpse was all they could carry with them to their destinations . |
| 6 | It is wise to remember that these men were competing at a time when the black presence was of only tiny significance . |
| 7 | The UN protection force , Unprofor , and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had called for an air corridor after reports that refugees in Srebrenica were dying at a rate of 20 a day from exposure and starvation . |
| 8 | On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity . |
| 9 | Group 4 — 65 men — were landing at the north end of the town , putting the defenders under pressure from two sides , while 30 men of Group 5 had landed from HMS Oribi at about 1000 hours . |
| 10 | We were laughing at the Sun this morning , had a picture of Neil Kinnock 's head in the light bulb and it said , could the last person out of Britain please turn the light off after them . |
| 11 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 12 | By the decade 's end , shares in America 's packaged-food firms were trading at a 30% premium to Standard & Poor 's 500-stock index . |
| 13 | Some were tearing at the glass , others struggling with the doors , but none of them could get out . |
| 14 | All of these changes were happening at a time when the rapid expansion of television was encouraging even greater isolation . |
| 15 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 16 | The first French skirmishers were appearing at the edge of the trampled area . |
| 17 | Winston 's Water-Lions and Diving Nymphs were appearing at the Glasgow Empire , busily proving themselves as ‘ the aquatic marvels of the 20th century ’ . |
| 18 | Although they saw other Girls rehearsing in troupe , Elsie and Eddie Port seemed to be the only pupils who were training at the School . |
| 19 | Trying to pull us both up short she started on a lecture on the foetal damage caused by nicotine , but neither of us was listening ; we were looking at a memory . |
| 20 | I think , was it Colin I was talk , we were looking at a Porsche the other day , and he was drooling over this Porsche , and yet it does n't do anything for me . |
| 21 | The other thing is with the competency f if you w if you were looking at a competency chart with a certain member of staff , and identifying that they were incompetent |
| 22 | The children were looking at a picture showing two rows of cats . |
| 23 | We were looking at a plant which was a little like cow parsley but smaller , its leaves more feathery . |
| 24 | On our first night in France , exhausted after a ferry crossing , we just happened to fetch up in this little village on the Loire , in a hotel on the second floor of a hotel where , indeed , we opened the shutters — and we were looking at the west end of the Romanesque Abbey of St Benoit sur Loire , which is a most striking church where the remains of the saint are interred in a little casket in the crypt . |
| 25 | Caspar was explaining in a hushed voice that they were looking at the Robemaker 's stocks of enchantments . |
| 26 | Erm we are not going any further than that erm we the debate this morning erm we were looking at the differences between ourselves and then for example Selby District of what what they would like to see which was er certainly more than growth oriented the County Council 's proposals are . |
| 27 | Two well-dressed women were looking at the greenhouses for sale at a garden centre recently . |
| 28 | No you were looking at the Mal Vicinty |
| 29 | ‘ We were looking at the issue but there was no commitment from us , ’ said a senior British official . |
| 30 | You were looking at the lambs . |