Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was late and I was looking down at Chung Kuo , wondering what lay ahead . |
| 2 | ‘ You attended Edwin Garland in his last illness and you were called in at his death . |
| 3 | and she was looking down at it , right |
| 4 | The ceiling had been removed and we were looking up at where the roof of the house once had been . |
| 5 | The road was deserted and we were throbbing along at a moderate pace when suddenly the engine sputtered and stopped . |
| 6 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 7 | Anyway , , the old shed looks well there er , I du n no why I started to look out and the cat was on his back legs with his feet like that and he was looking up at me like that ! |
| 8 | Sims 's smile had gone a little rueful and he was looking down at his hands , turning a gold-tipped cigarette in his small fingers . |
| 9 | Yes and he was buried up at Creeting you see . |
| 10 | I was retiring and he was coming through at eighteen , nineteen , and erm twelve years later , he 's now driving for me in Grand Prix racing . |
| 11 | Both her hands were imprisoned in his now , and he was staring down at them . |
| 12 | The road was owned by Mr Dalison who gave it to the parish , in 1892 and it was made up at the cost of £40 and the improvements to the cemetery cost a further £21 140 . |
| 13 | He left a note explaining his action and it was read out at the inquest . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , this had the effect of making it also extremely mobile during transport , and it was sliding about at every bend in the road . |