Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day before the dinner I received word from the admiral 's ADC that if I were to present myself at 6.55 p.m. at his suite in the Gosforth Park Hotel , where we were both staying , he would give me a lift to the dockyard . |
| 2 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 3 | I was weathering the winter and believed that if there was anything in my lung , then at the very worst I was holding it at bay . |
| 4 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 5 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 6 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 7 | I was telling them at school . |
| 8 | At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Did he rebel because he guessed I was throwing you at him ? ’ |
| 11 | if I was recording you at this precise moment ? |
| 12 | ‘ Yes — I was to meet him at Glasgow and I was late . |
| 13 | Cos I was shaking mine at him |
| 14 | Smiling at her over people 's shoulders while she could not move because someone was telling her at length how much she must be missing her mother . |
| 15 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 16 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 17 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 18 | ‘ Except for one other memorable occasion , of course — when you were wearing nothing at all . ’ |
| 19 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 20 | I think you were amusing yourself at my expense . ’ |
| 21 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 22 | Gaston , the committee man , who had been eyeing Ingrid the entire evening , trying to discern if she was wearing anything at all under the gold waistcoat , hurried over and pulled her to her feet . |
| 23 | I 've put in stuff for her from all over , and she always thanks me , not like she was paying me at all . |
| 24 | ‘ She was doing nothing at all to help this baby in such distress . |
| 25 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 26 | We were to meet him at the airport , and when we were making all the arrangements with him on the phone , he said , ‘ Are you sure you 'll be able to recognize me ? ’ |
| 27 | We were following them at a good clip . |
| 28 | London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 . |
| 29 | And Fleischmann received a fax from Harwell and learned that they were seeing nothing at all . |
| 30 | Many of the instrumental numbers were so relaxed , they looked like they were amusing themselves at a family party and when Harry told everyone to stand up as he bopped around the stage in his black silk suit , everyone did as they were told . |