Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [v-ing] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’ |
| 2 | And now , on a clear morning , Graham Little and I are sitting at the bottom of the wall , fit and ready to go , and the wall is plastered with verglas . |
| 3 | What a queasy period those inter-war years now seem ( I am looking at the chicken curry ) , the old hatreds and prejudices simmering and bubbling nicely with all the dark , irrational fears surfacing in a way that rational people like Cohn-Casson believed had long ago been rendered obsolete by the evolutionary nature of society . |
| 4 | Josnau a di chop — I am eating at the moment |
| 5 | ‘ I am staying at the Queen 's Head , ’ he managed to say . |
| 6 | I am not rejecting the idea of Jesus being my representative — all I am doing at the moment is to point out some difficulties with it when it is considered as the central idea in the atonement theory . |
| 7 | What I am doing at the moment — pretending to have given up while backsliding every chance I get — is marginally better than full-time smoking ; the trouble is that it runs every risk of turning into it . |
| 8 | I expect Hamish will be writing again pretty soon again too , but here I am sitting at the computer anyway , putting off writing a series of begging letters to friends and connections in various educational and other institutions and organizations asking them to submit to Chambers Harrap ( as we now are ) all partable-with unpublished bumf ( memos , minutes , notices , reports , etc , etc ) to swell the ‘ ephemera ’ ( new stretched meaning ) content of the British National Corpus of English . |
| 9 | ‘ Fitness if often a psychological thing — if you think fit , you will be fit , and that 's how I am feeling at the moment . ’ |
| 10 | It will be objected that love-making necessarily includes an irrational , a Dionysian , element that is obscured by what I am saying at the moment . |
| 11 | I like to think that I am laughing at the idea , which has as real a set of consequences as bombs in a Tom and Jerry cartoon . |
| 12 | ‘ So you might like to know , ’ he said , studiedly casual , ‘ that I 'm staying at the Plaza . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm staying at the Hôtel d'Angleterre . |
| 14 | ‘ If you should change your mind , I 'm staying at the Holiday Inn . |
| 15 | Your letter arrived early last week — Tuesday — and I picked it up as I was on my way out of the guest house where I 'm staying at the moment . |
| 16 | I 'm staying at the farmhouse — last year I lodged in the village . ’ |
| 17 | I think you 're only talking about redundancies if we ca n't erm take some short term work from elsewhere , er as opposed to , I mean , I 'm suggesting at the moment we take stock a longer time |
| 18 | This will be my last N C V O , A G M as a member of staff since I 'm leaving at the end of January , to become Chief Executive of Arthritis Care . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm looking at the partnership agreement now … trm , trm , trm , here we are — death in partnership — well , it dissolves the partnership , course it does , but what happens to the money ? |
| 20 | At first , cos I 'm looking at the baby , I do n't see who the lady is . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm looking at the fire , ’ said Lydia . |
| 22 | Now just to clarify in my mind about , here I 'm looking at the summary of your submission , you actually refer to the fact that sixty three hectares are required to meet the needs of the city , whereas I take it you say this morning that you 're happy with the forty six , er but in reality you can only get thirty three ac thirty three hectares within the city . |
| 23 | Sweet shop , sweet shop , sweet , I never know what to buy when I 'm looking at the chocolate compartment . |
| 24 | And I 'm getting at the hygienist today ? |
| 25 | I borrowed a modest amount to buy my house , that I could easily meet within the finances that I 'm getting at the moment . |
| 26 | I think I may now have seen how to proceed in a paper I 'm writing at the moment on unconscious intention . |
| 27 | ‘ This is the wing I 'm using at the moment , ’ he told her . |
| 28 | No I 'm using at the moment . |
| 29 | He said , ‘ I 'm reeling at the way you 're shouldering my prejudices aside . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm working at the weekend |