Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 2 | I know , but the appalling thing is that the address list was given out at the A G M and Christine 's phone number is on it . |
| 3 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions . |
| 7 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 8 | Court Four of the Royal Courts of Justice in London was packed with judges and barristers to hear the support lent to Lord Lane , who announced in February that he was stepping down at the age of 73 , 18 months before the compulsory retirement age for judges . |
| 9 | Marc was stamping about at the top of the steps , knocking the snow off his boots . |
| 10 | As was pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , they shared classical criminology 's view that the purpose of penal practice was effective crime control . |
| 11 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 12 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |
| 13 | It was caught up at the neck into a huge thick collar of silver fur . |
| 14 | Not only did the train travel fast , it spread fast and soon the world was opening up at a pace not previously imagined . |
| 15 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 16 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 17 | Wycliffe was booked in at a hotel on the waterfront , up river from the wharf and facing the village of Flushing across a narrow stretch of water . |
| 18 | Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier . |
| 19 | But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study . |
| 20 | For these , training was a regular event and in one case was carried out at a separate meeting every alternate month . |
| 21 | His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya . |
| 22 | Much detailed work was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April 1992 [ see p. 38890 ] . |
| 23 | Much of the detailed work on the conventions agreed at the summit was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April [ see ED no. 58 ] . |
| 24 | The commendation reads : ‘ A difficult rescue was carried out at a high degree of risk to the crew . |
| 25 | The operation was carried out at the National Heart the next day , with the odds improving and I was then transferred to Harefield for five weeks . |
| 26 | Servicing of steam locomotive No. 90 was carried out at the Severn Valley Railway Works at Bridgenorth where a complete new firebox and boiler was made and then shipped to Galway for installation . |
| 27 | A pioneering and influential study in this field was carried out at the University of Birmingham by Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) . |
| 28 | Considerable work was carried out at the old carding mill . |
| 29 | The research reported here was carried out at the request of the Scottish Office Education Department in June and in November 1991 . |
| 30 | Further modernisation was carried out at the Imperial Grain Warehouse . |