Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a mother I am looking at this girl . |
| 2 | The point I am labouring at such length is that there is a large and complicated repertoire of non-verbal behaviour without which it is impossible to communicate meanings through the medium of spoken words and although it is tempting to regard this non-lexical repertoire as something which can be painlessly removed without any significant loss of meaning , the experience of reconstructing talk from a medium in which the representation of this aspect of speech is so poor is a salutary reminder of its importance . |
| 3 | But the case is different of course in modes of language use which are non-reciprocal , of which what I am doing at this moment is an obvious example . |
| 4 | And if every , everybody brings a friend then you 're looking at fifty people , and I 'm not looking at fifty people , I 'm looking at this lot . |
| 5 | The drawing packages I 'm looking at this month have more widespread practical use than the painting packages I reviewed last month . |
| 6 | What I 'm doing at this point , actually , is jumping up and forcing the windows open to get some air into the room . |
| 7 | I apprehend however that it would be disappointing to you — I ca n't think why — if I were to stop at this point . |
| 8 | I was looking at that bloke in the Metro going fuck me |
| 9 | Well what I was looking at this afternoon was your radiator comes through the floor . |
| 10 | Somebody like me , if I was stood at that table , I mean okay if you 've got kids coming in , but if you get adults coming in , I would n't be able to answer questions , I do n't know enough about the product . |
| 11 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 12 | ‘ I was screaming at that critic who admires The White Hotel . |
| 13 | It arose because of my meeting George Wigg in the army , whom I had encountered when I was based at Southern Command headquarters and he was at the same headquarters as a Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of army education , where he had already established a reputation for ruthless eccentricity . |
| 14 | Her auntie was in , but I was to go at any time for the telephone … |
| 15 | I think I was asked at one stage , and I said ‘ No , not in my lifetime . ’ |
| 16 | We filmed on the train to London and I was told at one stage that we were proceeding at one hundred miles an hour . |
| 17 | Mm and I was told at one stage that they used to revert back to Yorkshire |
| 18 | It came to me as I listened that I did n't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment , that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through , because all I had been through was my being there . |
| 19 | Cherry Vanilla was doing nothing — she was eating fruit and breaking out all the time as a result , Jane was doing nothing too — she 'd started a group called Queen Elizabeth which played little , low-life funky bars on the Lower Eastside , Tony Zanetta was working coding , which is a very ignominious job that out-of-work actors do in New York , and I was working at 16 Magazine as a tea boy . |
| 20 | And I was working at this day and being a Monday or a Tuesday after the Mo Sunday meeting . |
| 21 | All I was doing at this time , if I was n't at school , was watching TV , listening to music , reading or walking , with Dawn as my constant companion . |
| 22 | The budgets of anticipated income and expenditure which are prepared at this stage are vital if the band are to appreciate the limits of their financial resources . |
| 23 | As far as actual examples of volcanic rocks are concerned , it was mentioned that the most abundant are basalts , which form at mid-ocean ridges , and andesites , which are formed at destructive plate margins . |
| 24 | There are frequent butter , grain , wine and beef mountains which are stored at great cost or sold off cheaply to other countries . |
| 25 | Scenes which are viewed at normal eye level convey the message that this is a normal situation : dramatically , it is neutral . |
| 26 | The questions which are tackled at Advanced level reflect the many aspects and problems of History as a subject . |
| 27 | The latter has led to serious distortions in the administration of justice which are argued at some length in Chapters 7 and 9 . |
| 28 | The mainframe is linked to detection boxes developed by Granada , which are based at each customer 's site . |
| 29 | The majority of College finance is provided by central government grants , which are divided at local level into that required to provide central administrative and support services , and that used to finance the College operations , allocated on a pro-rata basis to individual establishments dependent on the level of course provision and student numbers . |
| 30 | The worts are collected in specially designed 20 tonne giant kettles , to ensure a vigorous mixing and boiling with the hops which are added at this stage . |