Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 4 | Mendez was looking over at the bar ; Russell down at his drink , as if thinking or listening . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Hasan was sitting up at the table , eating a large slice of toast . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Even Trepper was captured and the Rote Kapelle was wound up at the end of 1942 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |
| 16 | Marc was stamping about at the top of the steps , knocking the snow off his boots . |
| 17 | The women complained to the station master — and Knowles was taken off at the next station . |
| 18 | This power , however , was to be used according to the rules of the American Constitution , not as a means to a dictatorship like that which Hitler was setting up at the very same time in Germany . |
| 19 | ‘ The sort of people John Smith was winding up at the Trade Union Conference about a return to a Golden Age , when they were back in the driving seat and great rights for their members , and a friendly government again — some of those people are beginning to make noises . |