Example sentences of "were [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one were gazing at the vertex of a tetrahedron , would the view be different ? |
| 2 | People were gazing at the still smoking ruins and chalked on a blackboard on the pavement was , ‘ Employees meeting at Victoria Hall , Rollestone Street tonight at 6 o'clock . ’ |
| 3 | Now thirty-five intrepid Lionisers were gazing at the outside of the small single-fronted cottage with its tiny parlour overlooking the street . |
| 4 | The French guns were firing at the flanks of the Prince 's position ; aiming at the farmhouses to east and west . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We had filled our tank , and were eating at the open food-stall , or " warong " , just across the street when a dilapidated petrol-truck pulled in to top up the filling-station 's reservoir . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Some were tearing at the glass , others struggling with the doors , but none of them could get out . |
| 13 | He threw himself forward , startling the beasts that were tearing at the prostrate girl on the ground , and arced his sword round with manic strength , tearing the blade through two of them with one swing . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I originally had this idea through the workers union in Manchester , and I was wondering if there were any comparative studies that were happening at the same time , and that would be really interesting to see how Oxford compares to other areas . |
| 16 | Winston 's Water-Lions and Diving Nymphs were appearing at the Glasgow Empire , busily proving themselves as ‘ the aquatic marvels of the 20th century ’ . |
| 17 | The first French skirmishers were appearing at the edge of the trampled area . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 20 | Two well-dressed women were looking at the greenhouses for sale at a garden centre recently . |
| 21 | We were just walking off the 18th — with yet another par , and yet another good one but without a birdie to the end — when the crowd started fidgeting because they were looking at the scoreboard . |
| 22 | Seb and Antony were looking at the horses dubiously , trying to see past glories and failing . |
| 23 | Although they were looking at the clump of bushes from a different angle now , she knew it was the same clump they had seen from the gate . |
| 24 | ‘ You say you only began to feel funny while you were looking at the eye ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We were looking at the issue but there was no commitment from us , ’ said a senior British official . |
| 26 | I remember going upstairs while they were looking at the corpse and writing a note with trembling fingers . |
| 27 | Previously we were looking at the way in which the colour order for pattern is decided by the Creation 6 program and took a pattern all the way through to the ‘ Knit a pattern ’ menu , ready to transfer directly across to the machine console . |
| 28 | And I was in a ca , er school over the summer holidays and er , we were looking at the design and technology and the point was that they got ta design and make some components , and realise I 'm talking about , you know , six , seven , eight year old , mixed girls and boys theirselves , and it was ra rather heart-warming to see where the way these youngsters react . |
| 29 | You already understood the derivation in class , for you were looking at the blackboard and did not obscure your attention by scribbling down everything . |
| 30 | Were looking at the body beautiful and what we do to achieve it , we all arrived in the world with more or less the same package of features , limbs , faces , torso 's , since then , all of us I bet have tried to improve or disguise the way we look , what do we do ? , why do we do it ? , well let's start with a few questions , er , are you , well let me ask you this do you have a beautiful body ? , button one for yes , and button two for no |