Example sentences of "were [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If one were gazing at the vertex of a tetrahedron , would the view be different ? |
| 2 | People were gazing at the still smoking ruins and chalked on a blackboard on the pavement was , ‘ Employees meeting at Victoria Hall , Rollestone Street tonight at 6 o'clock . ’ |
| 3 | Now thirty-five intrepid Lionisers were gazing at the outside of the small single-fronted cottage with its tiny parlour overlooking the street . |
| 4 | The French guns were firing at the flanks of the Prince 's position ; aiming at the farmhouses to east and west . |
| 5 | ( Notice that this requires that each of the original companies were producing at an output below minimum efficient scale . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Other passengers were queueing at the check-point , most of them looking back as if that glimpse was all they could carry with them to their destinations . |
| 8 | It is wise to remember that these men were competing at a time when the black presence was of only tiny significance . |
| 9 | We had filled our tank , and were eating at the open food-stall , or " warong " , just across the street when a dilapidated petrol-truck pulled in to top up the filling-station 's reservoir . |
| 10 | Murder victims Julie Godwin , mother of a young child , and Elizabeth Over , both 30 , were holidaying at a remote bush camp close to the Mozambique border in Zululand . |
| 11 | The UN protection force , Unprofor , and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had called for an air corridor after reports that refugees in Srebrenica were dying at a rate of 20 a day from exposure and starvation . |
| 12 | On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity . |
| 13 | Group 4 — 65 men — were landing at the north end of the town , putting the defenders under pressure from two sides , while 30 men of Group 5 had landed from HMS Oribi at about 1000 hours . |
| 14 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 15 | We were laughing at the Sun this morning , had a picture of Neil Kinnock 's head in the light bulb and it said , could the last person out of Britain please turn the light off after them . |
| 16 | By the decade 's end , shares in America 's packaged-food firms were trading at a 30% premium to Standard & Poor 's 500-stock index . |
| 17 | Some were tearing at the glass , others struggling with the doors , but none of them could get out . |
| 18 | He threw himself forward , startling the beasts that were tearing at the prostrate girl on the ground , and arced his sword round with manic strength , tearing the blade through two of them with one swing . |
| 19 | All of these changes were happening at a time when the rapid expansion of television was encouraging even greater isolation . |
| 20 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 21 | I originally had this idea through the workers union in Manchester , and I was wondering if there were any comparative studies that were happening at the same time , and that would be really interesting to see how Oxford compares to other areas . |
| 22 | Winston 's Water-Lions and Diving Nymphs were appearing at the Glasgow Empire , busily proving themselves as ‘ the aquatic marvels of the 20th century ’ . |
| 23 | The first French skirmishers were appearing at the edge of the trampled area . |
| 24 | Although they saw other Girls rehearsing in troupe , Elsie and Eddie Port seemed to be the only pupils who were training at the School . |
| 25 | They were pushing at a partially open door as far as Britain was concerned . |
| 26 | The children were looking at a picture showing two rows of cats . |
| 27 | Trying to pull us both up short she started on a lecture on the foetal damage caused by nicotine , but neither of us was listening ; we were looking at a memory . |
| 28 | But today , from Loke Hide , we were looking at a single wild red-breasted goose . |
| 29 | The other thing is with the competency f if you w if you were looking at a competency chart with a certain member of staff , and identifying that they were incompetent |
| 30 | We were looking at a plant which was a little like cow parsley but smaller , its leaves more feathery . |