Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shower unit caught fire while a woman was using it at her home in Weston Crescent , Norton . |
| 2 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 3 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 4 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 5 | I 've put in stuff for her from all over , and she always thanks me , not like she was paying me at all . |
| 6 | Ian said he was fetching her at lunchtime . ’ |
| 7 | The one , the thing that I actually picked up on is tt erm in the greeting part of it you , you started very well and then Martin seemed to take control and you almost felt as if Martin was interviewing you at one point and erm you tried to get the control back and that 's when you went straight into the statement of purpose , because Martin was taking control . |
| 8 | Looking round , he saw that the young accomplice had retrieved the knife and was pointing it at him like a gun , stammering : ‘ You 'd better let him go , d' you hear ? ’ |
| 9 | I would n't get the opportunity to find out who else was calling me at the same time . |
| 10 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 11 | I was weathering the winter and believed that if there was anything in my lung , then at the very worst I was holding it at bay . |
| 12 | This I 'm pleased to say is being done , a meeting has been arranged with British Aerospace , it should have taken place on Monday er Mike was deputizing me at that meeting and I 'm waiting to see what the outcome of that meeting is . |
| 13 | if I was recording you at this precise moment ? |
| 14 | In the taxi , while he was dropping her at her small house in Fulham , she made an effort to regain some inch of the indispensable contact she had squandered , but there seemed no way of doing it . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Matthew Epstein was managing me at Harold Shaw at the time , ’ he recalls . |
| 17 | Republicans began to express concern yesterday that the President 's personal commitment to China , where he was ambassador in 1972 , was putting him at odds with public opinion still revolted by the brutal repression in Tiananmen Square . |
| 18 | Cos I was shaking mine at him |
| 19 | Benjamin 's eyes narrowed as if , for the first time , he was judging me at my real worth . |
| 20 | we 're used to a lot of Shakespeare 's archaisms because he was studying them at A level and Shakespeare 's got so a special sort of band of them that he uses . |
| 21 | The official story is that he was playing it at a party and people wanted to hear it over and over . |
| 22 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 23 | ‘ Did he rebel because he guessed I was throwing you at him ? ’ |
| 24 | It 's bigger than British Telecom which , at its profitable peak , was coining it at the rate of £90 a second . |
| 25 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 26 | I was telling them at school . |
| 27 | Smiling at her over people 's shoulders while she could not move because someone was telling her at length how much she must be missing her mother . |
| 28 | But as I went on reading I found that was n't what Clem was telling me at all . ’ |
| 29 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 30 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |