Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her initial instinct was to hit out at him in violent retaliation , the insults unendurable and unanswerable in any other way , and yet at the same time , some still , small place of recognition at the centre of all that red-hot emotion was acknowledging the kernel of truth hidden within the offensive words . |
| 2 | Here was the team which he had come to when it was struggling pathetically at the bottom of the First Division ; the team which he had made one of the greatest in the history of football , beaten by a fifth-rate side . |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 4 | Bluestone is not mentioned by Wesley but a Methodist Society was formed there at an early date . |
| 5 | THE Inland Revenue 's bankruptcy petition against Sir Edward du Cann was dismissed yesterday at the High Court in London . |
| 6 | His custom in his latter years was to attend here at all on Sunday mornings when he would occasionally the sermon being preached by one of his curates or his nephew , Reverend . |
| 7 | Because everybody was treated equally at the start of their Legion service , Mike , who had learnt his killing in the bush war in Rhodesia , was treated the same as a South Vietnamese man who had never put on a uniform in his life . |
| 8 | He was lashing away at balls on the practice ground . |
| 9 | And if it was her he was lashing out at , so be it . |
| 10 | Esso devised a petrol sales promotion scheme whereby a World Cup coin was given away at Esso petrol stations with every four gallons of petrol purchased . |
| 11 | Heparin ( 2000 IU ) was given intravenously at the beginning of the procedure . |
| 12 | 60 min later , almitrine ( Lab Euthérapie , Neuilly/Seine , France ) , a drug known to potentiate hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction , was given intravenously at 16 g/kg per min ( patient 1 ) or 12 g/kg per min ( patient 2 ) . |
| 13 | To prevent acidosis due to the operative trauma an infusion of a glucose-bicarbonate solution ( see below ) was given intra-arterially at a rate of 0.03 ml.min - 1 . |
| 14 | I know , but the appalling thing is that the address list was given out at the A G M and Christine 's phone number is on it . |
| 15 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 16 | They had joined a Gordian knot of vans , taxis , and automobiles that was inching forward at a pace that had set that little muscle in his jaw to knotting and unknotting . |
| 17 | He looked wild-eyed , and his hair was sticking up at all angles . |
| 18 | He was to sit in at least thirteen further Parliaments , six times for Guildford and five times for Surrey . |
| 19 | Sue likes me … lots of people like me … when I was helping out at the meat counter the other week , Jim said we should go bowling one night . |
| 20 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 21 | Her hand lay gently on his shoulder , barely pressing against him , yet it seemed he was gathered there at the point of contact , his whole self focused in her touch . |
| 22 | ‘ At the time the message was received here at Warrington the explosions were taking place , ’ Mr Baister told reporters . |
| 23 | I turned to share the wonder of it , but she was gazing up at the bloom of flame surging from the chimney 's mouth , and beyond where the evening-star glittered against the deepening blue sky . |
| 24 | There was a man on the sand below her platform , a black-haired stocky man with a beard , dressed in an old cloak and hatless , who was gazing up at her with powerfully blue eyes , astonishing in his dark face . |
| 25 | She was gazing up at him earnestly , a haunted , troubled quality about her expression , marring the beautiful lines of her oval-shaped face . |
| 26 | He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions . |
| 27 | The Butcher was gazing disappointedly at my broken-off tooth in his forceps . |
| 28 | It was when I was gazing dully at the finger , the heel of my hand resting in an intercostal space , that I felt the faintest flutter from below . |
| 29 | He was gazing judiciously at his finger nails with the air of a man content to leave the opening moves to his subordinate . |
| 30 | Putting the ‘ corpse ’ down , she gave up and was gazing sadly at the small body when , about two minutes after its ‘ death ’ , it suddenly took a few very deep breaths and started to move about . |