Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [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 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |
| 14 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 15 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 16 | I thought she was staying up at the villa to rest ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 19 | She was staring down at the undulating ground . |
| 20 | Ruth whirled round and faced Fernando who 'd appeared from nowhere as she was peering up at the house . |
| 21 | She was sitting down at the table ; he thought she really was looking very ill and wretched but his tender pride kept him silent . |
| 22 | ‘ Coming sir , ’ they both trilled , and soon we were sitting down at the dining table in a corner of the living-room . |
| 23 | At the time a lot of people felt we were selling out at the bottom , but I have n't heard that accusation recently . ’ |
| 24 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
| 25 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 26 | Everything seemed to be settled when Taiwanese and Indonesian officials agreed that the animals would be sent to the orang-utan rehabilitation centre run by Dr Galdikas at Tanjung Puting in Kalimantan ; and in November 1990 , they were seen off at the airport by BBC cameras , reporters from around the world and a hundred singing Taiwanese children . |
| 27 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
| 28 | They were dug in at the other end of the village in an orchard very close to the enemy positions . |
| 29 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
| 30 | He passed Caballeros and Bugner as they were holing out at the 15th and driving at the short 16th . |