Example sentences of "were [v-ing] at the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some were tearing at the glass , others struggling with the doors , but none of them could get out . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The first French skirmishers were appearing at the edge of the trampled area . |
| 12 | Winston 's Water-Lions and Diving Nymphs were appearing at the Glasgow Empire , busily proving themselves as ‘ the aquatic marvels of the 20th century ’ . |
| 13 | Although they saw other Girls rehearsing in troupe , Elsie and Eddie Port seemed to be the only pupils who were training at the School . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Caspar was explaining in a hushed voice that they were looking at the Robemaker 's stocks of enchantments . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Two well-dressed women were looking at the greenhouses for sale at a garden centre recently . |
| 18 | No you were looking at the Mal Vicinty |
| 19 | ‘ We were looking at the issue but there was no commitment from us , ’ said a senior British official . |
| 20 | You were looking at the lambs . |
| 21 | Seb and Antony were looking at the horses dubiously , trying to see past glories and failing . |
| 22 | However , a bright lady from one of the northern co-ops came up to me later with the simple answer : they were looking at the prices and making their choice on that basis in much the same manner as they might go into a butcher 's shop with a price tag for the weekend shopping firmly implanted in their minds . |
| 23 | Now I was concerned that nobody although they were looking at the water , they were looking at the borehole , they were looking at the electric , nobody was actually looking at production up there . |
| 24 | and maybe , you know , that 's not such a good thing , but we were looking at the Phillips , erm |
| 25 | When you were looking at the door |
| 26 | Near the door there was a rose-tree and three gardeners , who were looking at the roses in a very worried way . |
| 27 | I remember going upstairs while they were looking at the corpse and writing a note with trembling fingers . |
| 28 | You already understood the derivation in class , for you were looking at the blackboard and did not obscure your attention by scribbling down everything . |
| 29 | Cast your minds back , last week we were looking at the relationship between price elasticity of demand and marginal revenue , and what that relationship could tell us about er prices and total revenue in an industry . |
| 30 | Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats . |