Example sentences of "who [was/were] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they saw other Girls rehearsing in troupe , Elsie and Eddie Port seemed to be the only pupils who were training at the School . |
| 2 | Were these people who were staying at the house ? |
| 3 | In January 1990 ( i ) two people were on Jan. 22 shot dead and nine injured in the gold-mining town of Carletonville , 60 km south-west of Johannesburg , when police opened fire on a crowd of 5,000 blacks who were protesting at the death the previous week of a 16-year-old boy while held in detention ; and ( ii ) using razor wire , water cannon and plastic bullets , the police on Jan. 23 dispersed an illegal gathering of 8,000 demonstrators in Cape Town who were supporting the National Education Crisis Committee 's protest against the black education system . |
| 4 | So it 's pretty , it 's pretty er er and in fact some of these , these flocks who were grazing at the er w where just above that er that limit only just but just slightly above it so , so but in fact i if the farmers er grazed their sheep er further down the hillside er then in fact the , the er er the level dropped very rapidly and the sheep were then erm so it was a , a commercial decision as to whether to keep your sheep up on the hills to , to eat radioactive grass and get the compensation or to graze your sheep further down and actually the , the lamb the , the , the lambs for , for , for for the market . |
| 5 | Near the door there was a rose-tree and three gardeners , who were looking at the roses in a very worried way . |
| 6 | Two masons who were chiselling at the finials which Flemyng had ordered for the gables would stop their clinking from time to time to confirm something that one or other had said . |
| 7 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
| 8 | Most of the survivors were ones who were working at the time . |
| 9 | On arrival in Athenry eight miles from Galway City , the train was greeted by the English steel band ‘ Listen to the Noise ’ who were performing at the Athenry Festival after which the party was formally welcomed by the acting chairman of the Athenry Community Council , Fr. |
| 10 | In those days there was n't a great deal of of mining , I mean was n't open , and er there was a tremendous amount , well there 's a fair amount of of traffic agricultural traffic , and I mean one had to accept that virtually everything came in , all coal , road stone , erm goods required er for well 's who were going at the time , they er they used the railway . |
| 11 | Having finished her spot , the soprano left the stage and rejoined her husband and the Concert Secretary who were sitting at the next table . |
| 12 | ‘ Has anyone seen Christine or Robert King ? ’ she asked , turning to the others who were sitting at the back of the hall . |
| 13 | The only occupants of the room were a couple of young men who were sitting at the table , smoking Turkish cigarettes . |
| 14 | There was nobody else except two strangers who were standing at the back of the church . |
| 15 | She said that some of her council members were worried about the effect my outfit would have on the young girl athletes who were running at the meeting . |
| 16 | He gave a wonderful talk to all the students who were starting at the university . |
| 17 | Suddenly Angela , who was gazing at the red mack her mummy was holding out to her , gave a gasp . |
| 18 | Opened by another Mr Perkins who was staying at the same hotel , the package was passed to police who were ready and waiting for the actor when he arrived at the hotel in Cardiff . |
| 19 | I told him I did not know his friend Bill and the breakfast was for a man who was staying at the inn . |
| 20 | Bernard , who was staying at the curia at the time , submitted his work to Innocent for approval , but permission was refused by the pope , who again denied having issued some of the decretals . |
| 21 | She was also active at Percy Alden 's Mansfield House settlement in Canning Town , where she met Frederick Lawrence ( later Baron Pethick-Lawrence , q.v. ) , prospective Liberal Unionist MP , who was living at the settlement . |
| 22 | He had a brother ( Vallence ) , a sister ( who married Thomas Patchet ) , and a relative of the same name ( who was living at the George Yard , Lambeth , in 1638 ) . |
| 23 | Strangely , Benjamin did not wish to visit his uncle who was wintering at the Bishop of Ely 's inn just north of Holborn . |
| 24 | She replaced the receiver and looked round at Graham who was hovering at the door . ’ |
| 25 | Wullie Robertson , who was bleeding at the nose , was carrying a banner wrapped around a pole , as if it were the regimental standard of the Gordons . |
| 26 | In 1946 in Milan , Werner met a young woman who was looking at the same things as he was . |
| 27 | She turned to Philpott , who was pointing at the couch behind her . |
| 28 | The girl died after she and her 11-year-old sister , their eight-year-old brother and a 16year-old girl who was babysitting at the house , in Emlyn Road , Mayhill , Swansea , were rescued and taken to hospital . |
| 29 | Masklin looked at the tall , thin , old nome who was scowling at the three of them . |
| 30 | Sam 's boat was one of the last to sail in between the old forts , and Harry , who was standing at the end of the stone quay in order to crow over the birth of his son and demand payment of his winnings , saw with a twinge of jealousy that Gristy 's ketch was well down in the water . |