Example sentences of "am [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josnau a di chop — I am eating at the moment |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I am devastated at the verdict . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Q When I am looking at the ingredients in a hair product what should I be looking for to identify it as a quality product ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I am looking at the specific points that were made by the delegation to me earlier this month . |
| 7 | I am looking at the most magnificent townscape in London . |
| 8 | ‘ I am staying at the Queen 's Head , ’ he managed to say . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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and other institutions and organizations asking them to submit to Chambers Harrap ( as we now are ) all partable-with unpublished bumf ( memos , minutes , notices , reports , etc , etc ) to swell the ‘ ephemera ’ ( new stretched meaning ) content of the British National Corpus of English . |
| 13 | ‘ Fitness if often a psychological thing — if you think fit , you will be fit , and that 's how I am feeling at the moment . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Aycliffe had better post an advertisement to that effect , then , before I am burned at the stake ! ’ |