Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MORE people are looking in at the local , if figures from West Country brewer Devenish are any guide . |
| 2 | I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out . |
| 3 | And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living . |
| 4 | I think one of the ideas behind the the party chipping in on this is because it would be extremely convenient for people who are popping in at the last minute for |
| 5 | Maybe in forty years time , people will be looking back at the good old days of the Nineties to see which rising stars started their careers playing North-East venues . |
| 6 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 7 | Oh of course do n't forget yester yesterday erm they allow so many in so you 'd all be going in at the same time |
| 8 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 9 | He passed Caballeros and Bugner as they were holing out at the 15th and driving at the short 16th . |
| 10 | Bacci and the Marshal were staring in at the uncurtained window below the steps that led to the front door . |
| 11 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |
| 12 | My interpretation of what is going on at the present day is being saved for the next chapter , but some of the most startling results come from the latest ( and most accurately dated ) deposits . |
| 13 | Concentration has nothing to do with gritting your teeth and braving it out ; it 's the secret of being more and more relaxed and aware of everything that is going on at the same time . |
| 14 | Thus , for example , in order to understand what is going on at the local outside-level on Lewis , it is necessary to examine the structure of the oil industry as a whole . |
| 15 | WHAT 'S GOING on at the Philharmonic ? |
| 16 | At nine o'clock , by arrangement , I rang one of my colleagues at the hospital , Dr. J. D. Underwood , about a matter which is coming up at the next medical committee . |
| 17 | increase in value added tax — but he is standing down at the general election . |
| 18 | Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson is hitting out at the dirty habits of the British public ; he says mountains of litter dumped along motorways is forcing the government to spend £3 million a year cleaning it up . |
| 19 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 20 | It must have been an automatic reaction because he was looking down at the motionless figure and shouting , ‘ Harriet ! ’ |
| 21 | I was able to meet some of the leading Indian academic figures in English and Linguistics , and at the same time to find out what was going on at the lower levels of teaching in Universities and affiliated Colleges . |
| 22 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 23 | Jarvis , who was getting out at the next station , asked where they would be the following night ; the man who said his name was Jed Lowrie told him the Metropolitan , the Hammersmith Line . |
| 24 | The girl was staring up at the two of us , wondering what was going on . |
| 25 | She turned around , groping for the door-handle , and saw he was staring up at the small terraced house with interest . |
| 26 | She was staring down at the undulating ground . |
| 27 | He was staring out at the great dark sweep of the Edge , above the dale . |