Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton . |
| 2 | Two days later Horst Teltschik ( CDU ) announced that he would be stepping down at the end of the year as Kohl 's foreign policy adviser at the Chancellery . |
| 3 | He seemed to be gazing up at the night sky . |
| 4 | I shall be looking here at the effect of adjusting their published accounts between 1972 and 1991 to allow for inflation . |
| 5 | As the budget looms , the chancellor seems to be looking again at the feasibility of raising money for the government , by ending the tax relief on mortgages of up to thirty thousand pounds . |
| 6 | In many cases the husband and wife will be living apart at the time of the court order , or at a time when agreement is reached between them concerning the former matrimonial home , in circumstances that are likely to prove permanent . |
| 7 | Now I think in our experience so far we find that erm the accounts clerks in the back office are those who are most likely to be bashing away at the character terminals , those are the people who are bashing data into the system . |
| 8 | Every one hundred thousand Soviet immigrants delays by one year the deadline , soon they will be pouring in at the record rate of twenty a thousand month . |
| 9 | He knew the airliner would be turning right at the end of the runway and that he would be turning left . |
| 10 | Ideally , when touch legering , the rod should be pointing directly at the bait , so that the line does not have to travel over any angles . |
| 11 | A detailed study of figure 1 will show that in the first three minutes after outbreak , the height of the flames grow approximately to the height of the ‘ level ’ of racking on which the fire started , by five minutes some four levels have been involved , and by seven minutes to eight minutes the flames will be breaking out at the top of the racking . |
| 12 | Dalziel grunted and thought that Jacko must be doing well at the moment to be in , for him , so light-hearted a mood . |
| 13 | ‘ Our mothers and fathers will be coming over at the end of the summer for the presentation of prizes . ’ |
| 14 | She told Lizzie now that she would be coming down at the weekend and asked her if she would be kind enough to get her old room ready for her . |
| 15 | Your dramatic gestures will certainly mesmerize them , but they will be staring apprehensively at the glass , or laughing hysterically waiting for it to fall ! |
| 16 | Analysis of the moment-by-moment changes in performance over a ten-minute period has shown that while the sleep-deprived subject may be performing well at the beginning , all responses are slowed towards the end , as well as frank lapses occurring . |
| 17 | ‘ They seem to be taking longer at the moment . |
| 18 | You 're supposed to be sitting up at the table . |
| 19 | because if he put the bath right in there , I would be standing up at the end of the bath |
| 20 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 21 | You 'll still be working up at the farm and I 'll be having my midday meals up there , same as I do now . |