Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a mother I am looking at this girl . |
| 2 | The point I am labouring at such length is that there is a large and complicated repertoire of non-verbal behaviour without which it is impossible to communicate meanings through the medium of spoken words and although it is tempting to regard this non-lexical repertoire as something which can be painlessly removed without any significant loss of meaning , the experience of reconstructing talk from a medium in which the representation of this aspect of speech is so poor is a salutary reminder of its importance . |
| 3 | But the case is different of course in modes of language use which are non-reciprocal , of which what I am doing at this moment is an obvious example . |
| 4 | And if every , everybody brings a friend then you 're looking at fifty people , and I 'm not looking at fifty people , I 'm looking at this lot . |
| 5 | Yeah , travel line , and I says to her I said I 'm looking at this V F M bus timetable I says the five two , one I said it goes down ? |
| 6 | The drawing packages I 'm looking at this month have more widespread practical use than the painting packages I reviewed last month . |
| 7 | What I 'm doing at this point , actually , is jumping up and forcing the windows open to get some air into the room . |
| 8 | I apprehend however that it would be disappointing to you — I ca n't think why — if I were to stop at this point . |
| 9 | I was looking at that bloke in the Metro going fuck me |
| 10 | No wonder I like things I was looking at these tights , yeah , it 's just one pair , and they were about eight pounds |
| 11 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 12 | Well what I was looking at this afternoon was your radiator comes through the floor . |
| 13 | Somebody like me , if I was stood at that table , I mean okay if you 've got kids coming in , but if you get adults coming in , I would n't be able to answer questions , I do n't know enough about the product . |
| 14 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 15 | ‘ I was screaming at that critic who admires The White Hotel . |
| 16 | Her auntie was in , but I was to go at any time for the telephone … |
| 17 | It came to me as I listened that I did n't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment , that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through , because all I had been through was my being there . |
| 18 | And I was working at this day and being a Monday or a Tuesday after the Mo Sunday meeting . |
| 19 | All I was doing at this time , if I was n't at school , was watching TV , listening to music , reading or walking , with Dawn as my constant companion . |
| 20 | How long have you been living at this address ? |
| 21 | When you are actually sort of writing er , say if you are , when you are doing your project or doing your work it 's not just sufficient to say always T ratio is greater than two , therefore , it 's statistically significant , you must calculate the er correct critical value you use , right , for th for each T ratio and also if you are looking at any diagnostics or looking at the significance of the regression which is an F statistic right you must give the five percent or ten percent whichever you choose . |
| 22 | Once you are practised at this sort of relaxation you will feel quite refreshed afterwards . |
| 23 | You do C D space put , so you 're pointing at that directory , and then if you do M D ninety three , M D space ninety three , and then I 've created a sub-directory in ninety three , below this directory . |
| 24 | A VGA card and monitor are fine if you 're drawing at this level , and are okay for basic painting , although colours will be dithered and appear grainy , which is a problem for photographic retouching . |
| 25 | You 're looking at that meat there and you 're wondering what nationality it is ! ’ |
| 26 | And even looking at the figures we get now , I mean others here will take a great deal of interest , one 's interested in knowing where you 're going and what 's , you 're looking at those figures yourself anyway . |
| 27 | Turn your chairs round so you 're looking at this board . |
| 28 | Will you also while you 're looking at this look at page thirty-seven , which is the pollution and nuclear issues control sub-committee . |
| 29 | you 're looking at this chain here . |
| 30 | Park , you idiot , Graham told himself , you 're looking at this woman as if she was ET , Get a grip of yourself . |