Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 2 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 3 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 4 | The Prince and McPhee had walked on to the top of the bank and were standing looking down at the river . |
| 5 | The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m . |
| 6 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 7 | Then a car was heard pulling up at the gate ; either the bridal car or their uncle had come . |
| 8 | An 18-year-old woman post room worker escaped uninjured when the package she was handling went off at the offices which were occupied by SNP demonstrators last week . |
| 9 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 10 | Far more important was the fact that this baby girl , born two weeks after the defeat of a Scottish army by the English at Solway Moss , and at a time when her remarkable father James V was lying burnt out at the age of thirty in his glorious hunting-lodge at Falkland , was to be within a week of her birth queen of the Scots . |
| 11 | I did n't know quite where or how or with whom but I was going to turn in at the Gendarmerie and take it from there . |
| 12 | There was no way I was going to walk out at the end of all that . |
| 13 | I stared at him because he sounded so cold , but he was sitting looking down at the glass which he held on his knees and I could n't see his face . |
| 14 | Falati was allowed to stay on at the house after the intervention of Mr Mandela . |
| 15 | And I got the book it must have a bus you know ano , another , an extra bus on because he was allowed to get off at the tonight . |
| 16 | Marcus was standing looking down at the woman . |
| 17 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |