Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her initial instinct was to hit out at him in violent retaliation , the insults unendurable and unanswerable in any other way , and yet at the same time , some still , small place of recognition at the centre of all that red-hot emotion was acknowledging the kernel of truth hidden within the offensive words . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 3 | And if it was her he was lashing out at , so be it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 6 | He looked wild-eyed , and his hair was sticking up at all angles . |
| 7 | He was to sit in at least thirteen further Parliaments , six times for Guildford and five times for Surrey . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There was a man on the sand below her platform , a black-haired stocky man with a beard , dressed in an old cloak and hatless , who was gazing up at her with powerfully blue eyes , astonishing in his dark face . |
| 11 | She was gazing up at him earnestly , a haunted , troubled quality about her expression , marring the beautiful lines of her oval-shaped face . |
| 12 | He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions . |
| 13 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 14 | Guy was gazing down at her , an expression of such tenderness in his face that Isabel felt her heart shake . |
| 15 | Ruth blinked open her eyes and Fernando was gazing down at her , a new Fernando , one she did n't know any more . |
| 16 | I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past two hours ! ’ the man exclaimed harshly as he stared down at Laura , who was gazing back at him as though she 'd seen a ghost . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Marc was stamping about at the top of the steps , knocking the snow off his boots . |
| 19 | That was developed up at |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | His fame , however , rests on his A Complete and Universal English Dictionary , first published in 1774 ; it was to pass through at least twenty-three reprints and editions by 1848 . |
| 23 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |
| 24 | But if he was to come on at three o'clock in the morning , the other man called away would n't be replaced . |
| 25 | The idea , based on a shared controller architecture , was to come in at two to four times the performance of a conventional X box and reach pricing levels of $700-$800 a seat in two to three years . |
| 26 | Few other landowners could afford to wait a generation for the return of their money , if it was to come back at all . |
| 27 | It was caught up at the neck into a huge thick collar of silver fur . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Not only did the train travel fast , it spread fast and soon the world was opening up at a pace not previously imagined . |
| 30 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |