Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often the key to success is maintaining at least a pair of species , and sometimes even a small group with one male and a few females is desirable . |
| 2 | One victim is recovering at St Thomas 's after an eye operation , and another is in the Royal London Hospital , Whitechapel . |
| 3 | MAMAS AND THE PAPAS vocalist John Phillips is recovering at the University Of California , Los Angeles Medical Centre from a recent liver transplant . |
| 4 | Welcome back : A young wild deer is recovering at an animal rescue centre after having a leg amputated . |
| 5 | John Patten -- the Education Secretary and MP for Oxford West and Abingdon -- is recovering at home after a week in hospital for tests on a viral infection . |
| 6 | Comedian Les Dawson ( above ) is recovering at home after being discharged from hospital in Preston where he was being treated for a blood infection after a prostate operation . |
| 7 | Sexy , scandalous , ultra-violent and ultra-vilified , Basic Instinct is the movie that 's nagging at America 's conscience . |
| 8 | One bird drifts overhead and I swear it is gazing at my quill-like yellow boat as I am gazing at its white tail . |
| 9 | ( He is gazing at his machine . |
| 10 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 11 | I should imagine she is gazing at the floor , pursuing some thought which has escaped sideways from the main line of march , while he gazes almost anywhere but at her . |
| 12 | Conclusion : so far , the economy is contracting at a pace that is remarkably similar to America 's two deepest post-war recessions . |
| 13 | ‘ Painting is drawing at the same time , ’ Mauve had told him . |
| 14 | That erm the county council is pursuing at this er at this alteration . |
| 15 | Classification of functional gut disorders is proliferating at present , but there is much overlap of various functional symptom clusters and labelling these does not necessarily prove a common cause and may lend a false validity to the diagnosis . |
| 16 | No one 's firing at us now . ’ |
| 17 | It is raining at the moment and it 's gon na be wet and windy but quite mild for the rest of the day . |
| 18 | Yet blaming Mr Murdoch 's problems on two deals is like saying that the only sin of David Gower , England 's most gifted cricketer , is flashing at balls outside the off-stump . |
| 19 | So , viewers at home , do not hesitate , if you have even the slightest piece of useful data , hook up that modem and call , in complete confidence , our unmonitored SnitchLine on the number that is flashing at the bottom of your screen … |
| 20 | More usually , this is done by attaching lights to the wrists or to other parts of the body , if the light is flashing at a known frequency the relative time of particular positions as well as the sequence can be measured . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's resting at the Duke 's house in the forest before going on to Strelsau on Wednesday for his coronation . |
| 22 | It 's touching at their core because it helps them to recognize and understand their own experience of oppression , or what life must be like for their own sister , brother , mother or a member of the youth club . |
| 23 | Taking further tentative steps into the Unix arena , Software AG GmbH , Darmstadt , Germany , last week announced it will support IBM 's RS/6000 with its fourth generation development language Natural , and Adabas , its relational database management system , which it is targeting at on-line transaction processing solutions . |
| 24 | ‘ Even the moon 's blushing at the horrible way they treat ponies , ’ she snarled . |
| 25 | Flotation will be an important part of the plant that Marine Mining is building at Gwithian . |
| 26 | Mrs Varden is hinting at possibly dismissing Miggs . |
| 27 | There is simply no comparison with the terrorist Communist Party of Peru , the Sendero Luminoso , although that seems to be what Evans-Pritchard is hinting at . |
| 28 | It really must be be for the churches and the families themselves to go much further and to instruct if that is the er what the Noble Lord is hinting at , at erm promoting belief . |
| 29 | By now the phone is trilling at me Please replace the handset and try again . |
| 30 | Something is gathering at the edge of the meadow . |