Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm staying at Dalian Atkinson 's house tonight and I might just have a little drink or two — hopefully he will be paying . |
| 2 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 3 | erm I think in fact it would be better to ask Mr Bailey to explain what his concerns were erm I 'd just like to say first although initially it revolves around problems of drinking , I 'm looking at other issues of East Oxford , in that recently there 's been a great deal of concern about glue sniffing in sections there , and there have been various letters from residents in the local newspapers , and I think there 's a general level of problem for people living in East Oxford , and it 's not just that the people there want the streets cleaned up or whatever , they want something constructive and helpful to be done for people . |
| 4 | I was looking at back pages of the tabloids this lunchtime and noticed that Steve Coppell is the favourite now . |
| 5 | I refused to have a mastectomy and I see now in terms of theory , that I was stagemanaged at various points on the production line , into trying to turn me into a well-behaved patient by traumatising me by saying ‘ If you do n't do what we tell you … ’ or ‘ You 're being very naughty ’ or ‘ You 're being hysterical ’ , or ‘ We have n't got time to deal with all these questions , we 'd never get round ’ , and so on . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 8 | First , however , some general points to check when you are looking at non-ELT materials . |
| 9 | These are lists of choices you are offered at certain points . |
| 10 | To summarise , then , concentration is a skill you must develop if you are to work at high efficiency . |
| 11 | Yeah I mean if you 're looking at quantitative things it 's really you know how much actual How much variation happens whereas qualitative is you know what the actual variations |
| 12 | you 're looking at graduated assessment ? |
| 13 | Karen there 's no need , no need , you 're needed at bloody home . |
| 14 | You 're told at annual appraisal week . |
| 15 | The new puppy is very timid with strangers but now she is old enough to go out for walks , we have found she is growling at other dogs . |
| 16 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 17 | Evidence from police and forensic officers said Mrs Prescott looked as if she 'd been sewing the hem of a curtain , when she was shot at close range in the back of the head . |
| 18 | She was studying at public school for her ‘ O ’ levels , and had a clear idea of which university she would go to and what she would study there . |
| 19 | He was embarrassed , she knew , because she was sitting at old Eddy Moulton 's desk , upon the top of which poor old Eddy had so recently laid down his head and died . |
| 20 | And of course we are looking at other products all the time . |
| 21 | ‘ We are looking at Continental institutions such as pension funds which take a more long-term view or are more entrepreneurial . ’ |
| 22 | Okay , now that result holds , right , for all erm for all marginal relationships Okay , so if we are looking at a marginal marginal cost curve , right , we have got that 's our marginal cost , that 's our average cost we , we 're intersecting here when in the case it is a minimum so marginal costs cuts through average costs at its minimum value we are looking at average revenue and marginal revenue average revenue function marginal revenue function This is our total revenue function and the same relationship is embodied there , but , notice that between the average and the average revenue and marginal revenue functions , right , do n't intersect simply because we have got a linear relationship here right , average revenue is always above marginal revenue in this particular case . |
| 23 | So we are looking at distributed processing . ’ |
| 24 | We are looking at young people who are likely to be sexually active . ’ |
| 25 | A Ford spokesman said : ‘ We are looking at various aspects of our high performance models , not just the hot hatches … it would be fair to say that we are being a lot more discreet about the badging and ‘ dressing up ’ of some models now . ’ |
| 26 | When the idea of teleworking first came up , there was a fear of poor pay and long hours , but with this scheme we are looking at proper terms and conditions . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ We are looking at frightening levels of loss which an independent company could not sustain . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We are looking at voluntary redundancy , early retirement , job swaps , but if we ca n't do it by the end of the year we will have to look at compulsory redundancy . ’ |
| 29 | In Ujong Kulon , Indonesia , we are looking at novel microorganisms which might be useful to man . |
| 30 | We are looking at Organic growing by people who have been there and really know the problems . |