Example sentences of "was [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who on earth was thumping at the door like that early in the morning ? |
| 2 | Sheila and Mona were writing at side tables ; Michael was kneeling at the big armchair , a book between his elbows , as if in prayer , a position he sometimes used for studying . |
| 3 | Malc was kneeling at the altar and a price ticket of 39/11d ( nearly two quid ) decorated the sole of his shoe . |
| 4 | Malc was kneeling at the alter and a price ticket of 39/11 decorated the sole of his shoe . ’ |
| 5 | Poor Damien was kneeling at the entrance to the sanctuary screen , an easy target for someone lurking here with a crossbow . ’ |
| 6 | Ten minutes later in the gymnasium downstairs Lee reflected that if she threw one of the dumb-bells she was using at the wall-sized mirror and it shattered into a hundred pieces around a central trauma , she would wake herself up and everybody around her and get into the local papers . |
| 7 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
| 8 | It was raining at the time . |
| 9 | Her head , which was rotating at a different speed and a contrary motion to her brushing arm , reminded him of a duck in a shooting gallery . |
| 10 | Schellenberg was firing at a series of cardboard Russian soldiers , watched by an SS sergeant-major who was obviously in charge . |
| 11 | This aircraft was firing at the Ju88s from astern . |
| 12 | Caspar was sniffing at the dead magpie . |
| 13 | And sometimes — ’ She looked away from Ben towards the corner of the room where a picture was hanging at a slight angle , and her head moved to one side as if to see it better . |
| 14 | A wind was gathering at the coast , preparing to sweep across the fields , lean against the few trees and race on over the road , across to the far side of the island . |
| 15 | On the way out , a policeman told him about the tragedy that was unfolding at the far end of the ground . |
| 16 | He was gazing at a pair of round glasses . |
| 17 | He was gazing at a print of unrealistic mountains against a brilliant blue sky . |
| 18 | He was gazing at the woman with the strange , unblinking stare which meant he was working something out . |
| 19 | Suddenly Angela , who was gazing at the red mack her mummy was holding out to her , gave a gasp . |
| 20 | While I was gazing at the chamber a schoolgirl who was touring the gallery with her father came up and asked me how it worked . |
| 21 | Ruth wondered if she was gazing at the dark whiskers which sprouted on her chin and made her so appropriately , though unfortunately , named . |
| 22 | Lacuna was gazing at the screen . |
| 23 | Maurin was gazing at the ceiling . |
| 24 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 25 | Let me just close with some words from Matthew chapter nine in verse ten , he said that it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house behold many tax gatherers and sinners came and were dining with Jesus and his disciples , and when the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples , why is your teacher eating with the tax gatherers and sinners ? |
| 26 | Jitters was sucking at a bottle . |
| 27 | Mind you , I was pretty out of order at some of his famous parties , out-drinking George Brown and all those Labour ministers that he was courting at the time . ’ |
| 28 | She felt such a clown , standing before them with that vulgar object between her open legs , but she slowly sank down towards the disgusting dildo and manipulated her thighs until the blunt tip was nudging at the portals of her reluctant orifice . |
| 29 | Although I was walking at a normal pace the impact stunned me . |
| 30 | And M was stabbing at the table top with her secateurs and I could see she was white with rage . |