Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end . |
| 2 | Back again on Grace , Tilda was messing about at the foot of the mast with a black and yellow flag , one of the very few they had . |
| 3 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 4 | After a quick glance back through the shop ( Maisie and Ruthie were staring out at the street in silence ) Henry slid one sheet of the printed paper into Gordon 's typewriter . |
| 5 | Alan was sitting down at the end of the lawn , his back to the house ‘ so you do n't distract me ’ , finishing off some work for Monday . |
| 6 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 7 | Mendez was looking over at the bar ; Russell down at his drink , as if thinking or listening . |
| 8 | When we reached the hospital , four cars and a Land Rover were drawn up at the bungalow . |
| 9 | Problems started when a developer for the hotel could not be found , and Mr Graham was called in at the behest of the main creditor , the Bank of Scotland . |
| 10 | Hasan was sitting up at the table , eating a large slice of toast . |
| 11 | It may be significant that Paul Black was involved heavily at the London end in the design of such schemes , but again not from the total viewpoint which in any case would probably be regarded as one of the weaknesses of the London development where there was less overview than obtained in Oxford . |
| 12 | Duncan was dug in at the bottom of the orchard and had called in for a chat on his way from Brigade H.Q He was very interested in bagpipe music , having served with the Gordon Highlanders before joining the Commandos . |
| 13 | Even by 1926 party contacts between the capital and Smolensk were to remain mostly at the written rather than at the human level . |
| 14 | Lawrence had been drafted into the lineup following a finger injury suffered by Chris Lewis , while Botham was called up at the 11th hour to win his 100th cap when Derek Pringle 's sore back failed to respond to treatment . |
| 15 | An emissary from London to St Petersburg was picked up at the imperial frontier and a large number of compromising letters fell into the hands of tsarist investigators . |
| 16 | Invited by Hawke Systems Ltd , Slough , Berkshire , to cast a glance over DEC 's Alpha boxes last week , Unigram.X was turned away at the door when DEC UK officials turned white at the mention of press . |
| 17 | there 's just five days to go to the start of the new football season … it 's the big kick-off this Saturday … and both Swindon and Oxford were warming up at the weekend |
| 18 | there 's just five days to go to the start of the new football season … it 's the big kick-off this Saturday … and both Swindon and Oxford were warming up at the weekend |
| 19 | By the end of the month the French , United Kingdom and United States governments had committed troops to maintain " safe havens " within Iraq , despite the latter 's condemnation , and UN relief agencies confirmed on April 29 that Kurdish refugees who had fled Iraq were returning home at the rate of 20,000 a day . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , however , the rich followed their king 's dictum ‘ Après moi , le déluge ’ , and gave themselves up to pleasure — balls , the opera ( where new works by Gluck , Grétry and Piccinni were finally displacing the heroic works of Lully and Rameau , beloved of the Ancien Régime ) , gambling and hunting ; the chattering middle classes were busy discussing politics and aesthetics ; writers such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society with their radical ideas of universal fraternity in this ‘ Age of Enlightenment ’ ; and the poor were being told to ‘ eat cake ’ , if they had no bread . |
| 21 | Even Trepper was captured and the Rote Kapelle was wound up at the end of 1942 . |
| 22 | World Junior steeplechase champion Jimmy Muindi was snapped up at the beginning of the week and he will be joined in the Daily Mirror/Manx Airlines 10K road race by Josphat Ndeti and Zablon Miano . |
| 23 | In the first scene of Annie Hall Woody Allen was talking directly at the audience . |
| 24 | It should be remembered that the decision several years ago to continue membership of CERN was taken largely at the behest of the scientific community in full knowledge that , if it was combined with a zero-growth science budget , it would mean increasing pressure on the rest of nuclear physics . |
| 25 | Bill was snoring away at the bar . |
| 26 | Quite apart from this impulsive folly , there was another reason for Leopold to be anxious : Wolfgang had written that on being turfed out of the archbishop 's lodgings he had taken refuge with his friends the Webers , who had left Munich for Vienna in 1779 when Aloysia was taken on at the German opera . |
| 27 | Hereford were killed off at the start of the second half … they shot themselves as Steve Devine gave away a penalty … |
| 28 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 29 | Chris was gazing wistfully at the passing landscape . |
| 30 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |