Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French guns were firing at the flanks of the Prince 's position ; aiming at the farmhouses to east and west . |
| 2 | The Trunchbull was in such a rage that her face had taken on a boiled colour and little flecks of froth were gathering at the corners of her mouth . |
| 3 | There were another 100 miles of flatland , of dust , sheep , rheas and distant mountains before we were stopped at a police post . |
| 4 | Miss Jeanette , who at the time was Nichol 's 16year-old girlfriend , told how a week after the attack they were stopped at a police road block . |
| 5 | WHEN HE saw his hands in the light he flinched , and held them away from him , to avoid letting them touch any other part of his person or habit , for the right was engrained with drying blood across the palm and between the fingers , and the fingers of the left were dabbled at the tips , as if they had felt at stained clothing . |
| 6 | The Republican tradition lasted into the Empire : ancestor portraits were carried at the funerals of early imperial princes and notables , and both the imperial family and the surviving nobility continued to stress , and indeed enhance , their origins and virtues . |
| 7 | His fists were clenched at the seams of his trousers . |
| 8 | Birds showing the characters of the race carolinensis were seen at the Midrips between 19 and 22 March 1961 , and in the Cuckmere Valley on 21 and 22 March 1975 . |
| 9 | Numerous petitions concerning the forest were presented at the parliaments of this reign and the beginning of the next . |
| 10 | However , I recall with equal clarity the cries of ‘ Anti-English ’ behaviour when England were defeated at the hands of Scotland in Murrayfield two seasons ago , partly because the Scottish chose ‘ Flower of Scotland ’ as their national anthem . |
| 11 | Erm we are not going any further than that erm we the debate this morning erm we were looking at the differences between ourselves and then for example Selby District of what what they would like to see which was er certainly more than growth oriented the County Council 's proposals are . |
| 12 | Two well-dressed women were looking at the greenhouses for sale at a garden centre recently . |
| 13 | You were looking at the lambs . |
| 14 | Seb and Antony were looking at the horses dubiously , trying to see past glories and failing . |
| 15 | However , a bright lady from one of the northern co-ops came up to me later with the simple answer : they were looking at the prices and making their choice on that basis in much the same manner as they might go into a butcher 's shop with a price tag for the weekend shopping firmly implanted in their minds . |
| 16 | Near the door there was a rose-tree and three gardeners , who were looking at the roses in a very worried way . |
| 17 | Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats . |
| 18 | The Conservatives are inconsistent , I mean that when they wrote the policy , when they were looking at the guidelines this erm I ca n't remember off hand what it was on page fifty . |
| 19 | Both authors appear to belittle the great range of plants that were living at the times of their animals and the ways in which these plants were constantly evolving and migrating . |
| 20 | Horses for sale were tethered at the sides of them and tack , leather and ironwork were displayed on the tail-gates which were turned into makeshift stalls . |
| 21 | Four barricades , three of them protected by cannon , were built at the ends of the main streets , and 200 or 300 men posted at the bridge over the River Ribble , but no defences were built there . |
| 22 | These charges were collected at the ports by agents for the lighthouses . |
| 23 | And erm the I , I ca n't remember er oh I think most of the work up there that I was on , we were doing different jobs in the mill , like er when very too when the mills were closed at the holidays , we , we used to go up and work in some of the mills . |
| 24 | At the crown , small rollers were used at the roots for smaller curls and larger ones towards the ends for more body |
| 25 | Thirty-two year old David Casey and his 30 year old wife Jacqueline were accused at the Magistrates Court yesterday of conspiring with other people to cause an explosion likely to endanger life . |
| 26 | No , we were to look at the houses round the small port , and at their inhabitants . |
| 27 | Two masons who were chiselling at the finials which Flemyng had ordered for the gables would stop their clinking from time to time to confirm something that one or other had said . |
| 28 | By sad contrast , the people who led the bloodless revolution last autumn — many of them artists , writers , musicians and teachers — were eclipsed at the polls . |
| 29 | Tim noticed that they looked shabby , their clothes were worn at the edges , the collars dull and frayed . |
| 30 | I tried to move my hands and they hurt , but I established that they were n't tied , they were taped at the wrists . |