Example sentences of "and [pron] [be] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A band was playing and everyone was talking at increased volume to make themselves heard above it . |
| 2 | from you and , and I was looking at that and ticking boxes and I was , I was almost not listening to what you were saying at times . |
| 3 | I finished every day mostly at one o'clock and I was to start at half past five the next morning . |
| 4 | Cherry Vanilla was doing nothing — she was eating fruit and breaking out all the time as a result , Jane was doing nothing too — she 'd started a group called Queen Elizabeth which played little , low-life funky bars on the Lower Eastside , Tony Zanetta was working coding , which is a very ignominious job that out-of-work actors do in New York , and I was working at 16 Magazine as a tea boy . |
| 5 | And I was working at this day and being a Monday or a Tuesday after the Mo Sunday meeting . |
| 6 | We filmed on the train to London and I was told at one stage that we were proceeding at one hundred miles an hour . |
| 7 | Mm and I was told at one stage that they used to revert back to Yorkshire |
| 8 | The section relates to any instrument that : ( i ) is executed in pursuance of an order of a court made on granting in respect of the parties a decree of divorce , nullity of marriage or judicial separation , or ( ii ) is executed in pursuance of an order of a court which is made in connection with the dissolution or annulment of the marriage or the parties ' judicial separation and which is made at any time after the granting of such a decree , or ( iii ) is executed at any time in pursuance of an agreement of the parties made in contemplation of or otherwise in connection with the dissolution or annulment of the marriage or their judicial separation . |
| 9 | During the year , the residential courses which we have organised since 1985 and which are aimed at young people aged between 16 and 19 years , produced our 1,000th graduate . |
| 10 | walk in like that and you 're looking at all the things in the shop not where |
| 11 | twenty five grand a year an and you 're sat at that desk and you 're boss ? |
| 12 | The archetype of faith is Abraham , who went out at God 's command though he did not know where he was going , and who was prepared at that command even to sacrifice his own son . |
| 13 | So Barbara , meself and a couple of the kids came along , , a couple of the kids were in on this , backing away sort of thing , and of course she went on this used car lot , and she 's looking at these Volkswagens , and John was doing his bit , I believe you like Polos . |
| 14 | And there was a lady in the , in his congregation he preached to masses , to thousands and thousands of people , and she came to him , she was , she was annoyed , she was a rather er , well-to-do lady , and she was offended at this this preaching that she had to be born again , and that people had to have this new birth experience . |
| 15 | Erm but the pre-enquiry meeting is taking place tomorrow and we are represented at that meeting John is going along . |
| 16 | Anything above a hundred thousand , and we 're looking at financial underwriting , we 're looking at basically four times salary . |
| 17 | The longer serving members of the committee will remember a series of booklets on mental health , mental handicap and physical handicap across the county and we 're looking at that in the context of the major changes now and seeing whether those should be repeated . |
| 18 | elderly persons homes , I think , and we 're looking at two sets in that , er , there 's the proposal at twenty two , for a closure of one residential home for the elderly , in the east of the county . |
| 19 | Yes , er , and we 're looking at living assurance . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've gone after the areas where we have out performed Intel and we 're aiming at high-volume products such as laptops and palmtops , ’ Dave Brand , AMD 's British managing director , said . |
| 21 | This Friday yeah , and we 're leaving at one fifteen , there 's a coach |
| 22 | And we were looking at each other . |
| 23 | Away from the island the wind converted itself into a westerly and we were surfing at ten knots even with two slabs in the main and the genoa furled to almost nothing . |
| 24 | If not , a new selection process was required : all the adults in the household were listed and one was selected at random ; this happened in 30 per cent of households . |
| 25 | Just as well really ; when they go into the diamond formation , the trade mark of the Red Arrows , their wings are only 10ft apart and they 're travelling at 400 mph . |
| 26 | At present special requests have to be submitted and justified if calls are to be made ; they are made in the presence of an officer and they are charged at far in excess of the ‘ normal ’ rate because of the need to ask the operator to ring back with the cost — for which a surcharge is made . |
| 27 | The heads form a cap which covers the shoulder joint , and they are attached at one end to the upper arm and at the other end to 3 points to the front , top and back of the shoulder . |
| 28 | er they also brought out some a good range of lighting fittings er , which you still see about again used well I , I remember putting one , you saying about putting lights at different levels , erm a staircase which was in a new house which was architect design and built and erm , the staircase was er more or less centrally in the house rather than be stuck against one wall and so it had a well and down the centre of the well we strung one of these lights with er five different glasses suspended on black flex five black flexes and erm these were shades made of heavy glass er the glass was n't painted it was coloured all the way through , er and erm they were called er Chelsea , Chelsea glasswork and erm these each had a lamp inside them well er about three inch diameter cylinders actually about eight inches long and they were hung at different heights er so that the lip behind the staircase and also of course there 's a staircase being where it was , it was in the centre of er , a , quite a large hallway for modern stand for modern standards and erm it of course was a feature of the hall as well . |
| 29 | And they were working at this Pit . |
| 30 | She had turned to him now and they were staring at each other . |