Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 2 | Piece by small technical piece , these strategies are eating away at the consensus that originally made OS/2 seem a certainty as the computing world 's next-generation technical standard . |
| 3 | It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience . |
| 4 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 5 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |
| 6 | They were the sorts of contacts that you have when you 're signing on at the Employment Benefits Office , when you 're going to a job interview erm and often these are very negative because the experience of signing on is n't a very pleasant experience at all ; most job interviews , unfortunately , end with a rejection erm so a lot of these non-routine contacts were quite negatives ones for people . |
| 7 | Cos er , Mark last week said er , he 'd been approached by a wedding to do a disco , he said well I ca n't it 's a Saturday , and then he said well , you know , where are you having the reception , said well we 're looking round at the moment . |
| 8 | They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand . |
| 9 | ‘ In fact , we 're staying on at the end of this trip to do the world cruise . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah , they 're moving out at the end of this month . |
| 11 | And often you forget , and your brain flies off somewhere to do something else , I fancied that bird last night , God the beer 's rough in that bloody hotel , I wonder what that , I wonder how they 're doing up at the depot ? |
| 12 | I 'm not being funny but we 're nitpicking now at the difference between |
| 13 | Apparently they 're laying profusely at the moment . |
| 14 | Then then there 's er what 's the name what 's the woman they 're working on at the minute this lot the |
| 15 | It 's just something which is so big , that for the problem we 're working on at the moment , you 'd be there forever , or you 'd be there from here to the moon or something . |
| 16 | Pack some clothes , and whatever you need to finish the illustrations you 're working on at the moment , then we 'll leave . ’ |
| 17 | Right , erh what I 'd like to do then is er I say could you just introduce yourself or what you 're working on at the moment where you work and then the sort of presentations that you make er and then give us one of your objectives so that by the time we 've got right round the room we 'll er hopefully have everybody . |
| 18 | Still , I suppose you would have to develop a certain detachment , otherwise you 'd never be able to carry on with what you 're working on at the moment . ’ |
| 19 | He says that the one they 're working on at the moment has bodies which appear to have been buried in a great hurry . |
| 20 | It 's a throw-in to David of Blackburn , down the right hand side , that one 's headed on by Stewart , the clearance from , is picked up by David who nipped in there ahead of and now here 's once more down the inside left channel , pushing it up towards the edge of the penalty area where holds it up well , they 're working well at the moment down that left hand side as gets it across , a snatched header comes in and it 's pushed behind by Chris for a corner kick , and we 're at the midway point of the second half , with Shrewsbury leading three two , Alan will describe it for you . |
| 21 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 22 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 23 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 24 | ‘ I am going there at the peak of my form , ’ he says . |
| 25 | Because because there 's so many there 's so many things that are going on at the moment that it it does take time . |
| 26 | There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total . |
| 27 | We 're talking about hundreds , not thousands here because there are six hundred clubs , so we 're talking , but I think though we , we hope to be able to give significant amounts of money to pay for perhaps safety boats , perhaps instructors , perhaps rescue boat fuel , enough to kick-start these courses off which is important and those forms are going out at the end of the week and when the money 's gone we 'll stop giving the grants out . |
| 28 | Now they are staying together at the Hotel Cipriani in Venice . |
| 29 | ‘ We are aiming not at the elaboration of a few but at the erection of many temples or houses of our Lord ’ and therefore ‘ cheapness in the construction of each is indispensable to success ’ and Gothic chapels need not be expensive . |
| 30 | She must have been staying there at the weekend ! |