Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment . |
| 2 | Every other day we 're using it at the moment . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're having it at the end of January … ’ |
| 4 | They 're doing something at the boy 's school , but we 're not doing anything personally . |
| 5 | perhaps the Company 's lack of comment on its own future , which must increasingly have been worrying them at the turn of the century . |
| 6 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 7 | ‘ I shall be seeing them at the weekend . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You 're not stupid , and neither are we , although you might be doubting it at the moment . |
| 9 | So I shall be enjoying myself at the wedding |
| 10 | Because she knew he would be meeting her at the road alone , she had risen very early and bathed and scented herself with special care in her suite at the Continental Palace that morning . |
| 11 | well if you think you might get some money at the end of the season , he said , you may find that you 'll be paying them at the end of the season ! |
| 12 | You are going to be getting them at the end of the case in any event and why should you be kept out of them ? |
| 13 | The composition of a team depends on who happens to be doing what at the time . |
| 14 | I 'm recording you at the minute . |
| 15 | I 'm showing it at the Norwich Contemporary Arts Exhibition on October the third if I can get it there . |
| 16 | , our long serving secretary will be leaving us at the end of May . |
| 17 | Cookie would be coining it at the greengrocer 's stall , munching fruit and putting on the courtesy act to old ladies . |
| 18 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
| 19 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 20 | So erm I do n't whether or not I s I still do n't think they were ultimately revolutionary , I think they were just erm people who they think were exploiting them at the time sort of erm you know in a certain situation |
| 21 | By the end of the tour kids were throwing themselves at the stage like little ‘ kamikazis ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ The Dream is trying to stay together , but our input is expanding it at the seams . |
| 23 | The Bishop of Woolwich , John Robinson , did this some time ago with ‘ Honest to God ’ and Don Cupitt , I think , is doing it at the moment too with his book ‘ Taking Leave of God ’ . |
| 24 | While the Independent 's raising prices , Rupert Murdoch 's cutting them at the Sun and the Times . |
| 25 | Now she has refined those skills with the help of judo and is putting them at the service of her country . |
| 26 | Now as economists we should have strong prides about income in this model , we would all , we would expect income to be very important in explaining textile consumption although the model is telling us at the moment , income does n't seem to be significantly explained in textile consumption so that 's something to worry about , we 're getting some , er sort of peculiar results here . |
| 27 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 28 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 29 | It 's bigger than British Telecom which , at its profitable peak , was coining it at the rate of £90 a second . |
| 30 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |