Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am dying to play at Wembley , ’ admitted Owers . ’ |
| 2 | When , one , one of the changes I 'm trying to do at night is , is to make the nature reserve more attractive to all species . |
| 3 | There 's hardly any of the usual vertigo effect , when I 'm trying to see things he 's not looking at , when I 'm trying to look at things he 's not seeing . |
| 4 | The point I 'm trying to get at sir is that erm it is none of it is in none of our interests , either the planning authorities or even of the developers , that if we were to erm find a strategic sites policy appropriate for this alteration , it 's in none of our interests that it should be confusing to the public or to the development industry as to how rare a thing this should be and how tightly directed it should be in geographical terms . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm going to study at home in the evenings . |
| 6 | I was beginning to feel at home in the desert . |
| 7 | By midway I was beginning to feel at home on the excellent , steep rock , placing my feet in a more balanced way and making smoother , les clumsy moves . |
| 8 | Knowing that I would be returning to work when ( my second baby ) was three months old , I acquired a battery-operated breast pump , as this time I was determined to express at lunch time to keep my supply going . |
| 9 | I have forgotten how I picked up my copy , it may have been at a retreat which I was asked to lead at Pleshey . |
| 10 | This certificate produced the desired effect and I was allowed to stay at home on parade days . |
| 11 | ‘ Tell him you are going to dine at Auguste 's before being taken to see La Traviata , ’ Madame instructed , ‘ by one of the richest and most influential men in Boston . ’ |
| 12 | If you 're going to live at Moorlake and open this crazy school of yours , I shall be coming to see you and I shall probably bump into Matthew . |
| 13 | You were going to look at ways of classifying the short stories you 've been looking at , when y , sort of , to look at similarities between short stories , like which ones deal with husband and wife relationships , which ones are about loneliness , I mean , use your paper , it 's it 's only there for scrap paper , you have n't got to produce something that 's gon na be pinned up on the wall . |
| 14 | Although her stomach was churning at the thought of the coming ordeal , she was determined to appear at ease so as not to let Ludo down . |
| 15 | It would be fun to have a little social life again and it occurred to her , too , that now she had come to live in Wellingham permanently , she must let as many people know as possible what she was trying to do at Moorlake . |
| 16 | ‘ We are going to arrive at Port au Prince airport in a few minutes . |
| 17 | It was a terrifying thought , but it had behind it a lot of erm I think of force , and the point is that the primary school teacher who was getting the child to crouch before the Roman gladiator was not in the business of training professional historians , was much more interested in getting the child involved in an educational way , yet ironically was coming closer to perhaps what we 're trying to do at university now , than the teacher who was going through a list of the textile industries and so on . |
| 18 | so after these tests , and we did this last year , check the P K U , cretinism and cystic fibrosis , we 're going to look at P K U today , right , erm what it is , rub that off ? |
| 19 | One , we 're going to look at why well trained staff are , are so important to the C U , secondly we 're going to look at things responsibility training is and lastly we want to look at a systematic approach that you can take as training . |
| 20 | on collecting my T-shirt and participants instructions a few days before the event , I was rather alarmed to discover that we were expected to meet at Alexander Stadium at 7.45 a.m. on the Sunday morning , a time that I did n't really know existed even before my maternity leave ! |
| 21 | We were told we were going to stop at Coventry on the way for lunch . |
| 22 | I told him our plan but he was none too eager until I told him we were going to play at funerals and that Frankie wanted him to imitate the preacher ; then he came along at once . |
| 23 | They are attempting to cross at Dravograd and give themselves up to the British … |
| 24 | It was decided to generate the samples from referrals to the psychogeriatric service in each borough , partly because it was easier to do that than to draw them from general practitioners ' lists or social services department referrals , but mainly in order to provide the service for people whose illness was likely to be at a relatively advanced stage and who were likely to need extra care if they were to continue to live at home . |
| 25 | Commanders were selected at top level of course , after which they were invited to attend at HQ where they would sift through the applications from prospective crew members , discuss them with the administrating Inspector and eventually come to a mutual agreement on the crewing of each cutter for the following year . |
| 26 | They were allowed to drink at work ? |
| 27 | She found that domestic life imposed more constraints upon girls than upon boys , for they were expected to stay at home and help with housework . |
| 28 | It does n't necessarily mean it 's going to work at front of house , so the sound man takes a direct feed , just a regular Marshall , dry , up to the house . |
| 29 | He can last for hours during the day without needing to go to the toilet , so I ca n't understand why it 's continuing to happen at night . |
| 30 | The automatic directions confirm that only those reports on which it is intended to rely at trial need be disclosed . |