Example sentences of "were [v-ing] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheila and Mona were writing at side tables ; Michael was kneeling at the big armchair , a book between his elbows , as if in prayer , a position he sometimes used for studying . |
| 2 | Relationships , similar figures , now we we looked at that , and we looked at scale , erm , and I think last time we were looking at things like though , not too long ago we were looking at price of council paper and this sort of stuff , which one shall we buy ? |
| 3 | Right okay can you go into the , just log the data okay last week we were looking at test for structural change and we said that the Chow test is the most commonly used test for structural change in actual fact Chow developed two tests erm , the parameter constancy , I E structural change , fir the first one is where you remember what the , the principle behind the Chow test that you split the whole sample into two sub periods , right and you see whether the , some of the res residual sum of squares from each sub sample , right , is significantly different from the residual sum of squares from a single estimation over the who whole sample period , right if they are significantly different that suggests that the parameters that are estimated over the full er sample period , right , are n't as good estimates as the unrestricted estimates when we are allowing two different sets of parameters just to be estimated . |
| 4 | Leading on from last week we were looking at menu planning and I actually asked you to bring in some menus . |
| 5 | and if we were looking at running costs and replacing things and |
| 6 | Tal talking about pensions Tom , the chap er cha with the office girls and that and , and checking our expense sheets , he , he er they put a notice on the board you could ante your what , in your pension , you could a put a bit more into it and I were looking at notice and he says ooh he says it 's no good for you , he says er w well I told you about it did n't I ? |
| 7 | Writing has always been fitted in before other demands on her time — two hours in the morning before the children were awake when they were living at home . |
| 8 | At any one time about 40 per cent of the population were children who were living at home with their parents . |
| 9 | Not to see if they were smoking at work but even in the privacy of their own home would we like that ? |
| 10 | And there 's also some cases where er the plans have actually partially lapsed since last renewal and in which case it 's quoting the premium they 're paying now which is a lot less than the premium they were paying at renewal . |
| 11 | One … two … three pulls , and then a wave lifted the boat and the oars were pulling at air . |
| 12 | The snow continued to fall as the Quattro clawed its way eastward towards whatever it was that they were seeking , whatever terrible things were waiting at journey 's end . |
| 13 | The only words spoken had been to the butler and maid , who were waiting at table and when they rose , Tamar excused herself . |
| 14 | I think you were teaching at night school . |
| 15 | And then there was a study into and area of Belfast where most of the men were unemployed and it was the women who were going out to work in the factory and it was found to be the other way round , and the women spoke more of a non-standard than the men did when the men were staying at home . |
| 16 | ‘ You were complaining at Christmas that your hands were always cold , Daddy . ’ |
| 17 | I remember one first night we stopped there , buses were coming at crack of dawn , |
| 18 | His batteries were running at half-speed , neither highly charged up nor flat . |
| 19 | The problem with many of the parents we interviewed of primary school children was that they did n't really know what their children were doing at school a lot of the time and , because they did n't know what they were doing , they sort of feared that it , they were n't doing anything or that what they were doing was not actual work , what they remembered as work . |
| 20 | They were protesting at Government plans to scrap the jobs for life guarantee under the National Dock Labour scheme . |
| 21 | To give you a feeling how large these forces could be I quote from Feynman 's lectures : " If you were standing at arm 's length from someone and each of you had one per cent more electrons than protons , the repelling force would be incredible . |
| 22 | I have tried to explain why the hon. Member for Gateshead , East and I were talking at cross purposes . |
| 23 | THEY were playing at home at Stamford Bridge . |
| 24 | ‘ The City were playing at home , ’ commented the Archdeacon . |
| 25 | Overall , four-fifths were studying at university and one-fifth were polytechnic students . |
| 26 | Seventy three per cent of the SERF students were studying at university . |
| 27 | Of the 442 SERC students , 73 per cent were studying at university and 27 per cent at a polytechnic . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , canny Munroists who paid attention to satellite technology , which indicated a depression deeper than Christmas in Barlinnie , were sitting at home by the fire eating cheese on toast . |
| 29 | Only then the nymphs were retreating at speed , in a flurry of droplets and giggles , so I got only fleeting views of slender backs and rounded behinds . |
| 30 | A camera team were filming at Flood Meadows on Tuesday when presenter Paul Clifford interviewed Susan Bellamy of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Naturalists Trust . |