Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 3 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 4 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 7 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 8 | Well I was thrown in at the deep end Different persons came in maybe if we had a job in a hurry and they would say , Oh you 're on at such and such a time at this . |
| 9 | There were times when I was starting in at the cattle that it stood between me and the road . |
| 10 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 11 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 12 | ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively . |
| 13 | And I was working upstairs in er what 's called the gascon module , Which was shut down at the time for repair work and things like that . |
| 14 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 15 | On the Gamily Fast Day in October , the children gave up snacks and donated the money save to a collection which was brought up at the offertory at a special mass in school . |
| 16 | With much wider powers than its predecessor , the Secondary Examinations Council ( SEC ) , SEAC is also heir to the recommendations of another of the Secretary of State 's ad hoc working parties , the Task Group on Assessment and Testing ( TGAT ) which was set up at the same time as the first curriculum working groups and , like them , worked under enormous pressure to produce proposals for the assessment of the National Curriculum . |
| 17 | A parliamentary commission investigating the activities of the security services within the Federal Military Department ( EMD ) ( primarily P-26 — which was set up at the time of the Cold War to provide resistance in case of invasion — and the extraordinary secret service P-27 ) presented its report on Nov. 23 , 1990 . |
| 18 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 19 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 20 | I thought she was staying up at the villa to rest ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 23 | She was staring down at the undulating ground . |
| 24 | Ruth whirled round and faced Fernando who 'd appeared from nowhere as she was peering up at the house . |
| 25 | She was sitting down at the table ; he thought she really was looking very ill and wretched but his tender pride kept him silent . |
| 26 | Jarvis , who was getting out at the next station , asked where they would be the following night ; the man who said his name was Jed Lowrie told him the Metropolitan , the Hammersmith Line . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's been like that most of the afternoon , ’ Sister Duggan , who was standing by at the foot of the bed , told him . |
| 28 | Speakers were David Snow of BP Bitor ( the company which imports and markets the fuel from Venezuela ) , Peter Taylor from the Oil Pollution Research Unit at Fort Popton , Dr Clive Morgan , also from Fort Popton but who was drafted in at the last minute to play the part of National Power Plc , and finally Gordon James of Narberth Friends of the Earth . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He left a note explaining his action and it was read out at the inquest . |