Example sentences of "you be [v-ing] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have you been listening at the door , Edgar ? ’ asked Catherine coldly . |
| 2 | As with chariots , when you are firing at a War Wagon with a stone thrower , or any other weapon which has a template to represent its effect , it is possible to hit the horses , the War Wagon , or the crew depending on the position of the template . |
| 3 | With such low interest rates for savers it is important to analyse just what you are getting at the end of the plan 's life and this is just what this month 's spreadsheet is all about . |
| 4 | When you feel like ‘ beating yourself up ’ , observe how you are acting at the time . |
| 5 | You are staying at the castle tonight ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You look at McLaren 's face in the dressing room before a match and you know you are looking at a winner , ’ Roxburgh remarked . |
| 7 | I do think we 've got to bear in mind that when you are looking at a change does it apply to everybody . |
| 8 | You are looking at a woman who has survived Europe , South America and East Africa — entirely without a maid . |
| 9 | Well when , when you are looking at a planning application , Mr Chairman , you can only look at planning matters . |
| 10 | So it it precedes the rest of it if you are looking at the front of the fox it 's erm why is a nose important to a wild animal ? |
| 11 | Notwithstandingfor that this is predictably possible , the little light yellow-green bumpouses poked their little selves up ( or out , whichever scale you are looking at the plane terrain of the global strain with for ) and waved to one another as a positive signal . |
| 12 | Alternatively an introductory sentence might be : ‘ I 've come to talk about how you are managing at the moment . ’ |
| 13 | Tonight my friend Watson and I must spend the night in your sister 's room , where you are sleeping at the moment . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ For what you are doing at the church house , I mean , ’ Owen explained . |
| 15 | Next you have to decide when to enter the date and time information — do you want to use the spreadsheet like a time clock where you record what you are doing at the time you do it or will you use it to maintain a post-hoc record and enter dates and times in batches . |
| 16 | ‘ Give a rating on a scale from 1 to 20 to indicate the risk you are feeling at the moment the tone sounds . |
| 17 | Awareness may come easily when you are experiencing the wonder of growing a plant from seed — it is a little less in the forefront of your mind when you are standing at the kitchen sink doing the washing up . |
| 18 | But , I told myself , by the time you are standing at the airport terminal ( not the train or the bus station ) , you have burned off the top ones and , come on , lad , you can afford to relax a little . |
| 19 | And th the stories that you read are all , all for children are they ones that you 're reading from a book , or are they ones that you 're inventing at the time , or what ? |
| 20 | I know you 're chafing at the bit , but we do n't want to risk a third bleed from that low-lying placenta . ’ |
| 21 | Well the election agent was the man responsible for getting that data through to the , the candidate to say that you 're speaking at a meeting , such and such a night , and another meeting at such and such so keeping the , keeps that candidate on his toes , all the time , during an election campaign until election 's over and then of course er you know what transpires after that I su it 's either |
| 22 | You 're looking at a lady , ’ she added sparkily , ‘ who does n't walk out on a job half done . |
| 23 | And you 're looking at a video and they sit there looking at you like that |
| 24 | So if you 're looking at a touring holiday in Europe it 's wanderlust probably , and if it 's an , a coach tour round Europe it 's almost certain to be psychocentric . |
| 25 | I think it 's quite important to orientate ourselves first , and you 're looking at a map of Oxford in 1643 , erm and 17th century maps for the most part are what we should call upside down . |
| 26 | So when you 're looking at a file on the screen , what you 're looking at is the file as it is in the , in the memory of the computer , and if you change your spreadsheet , then all you 're doing is changing what 's in the memory . |
| 27 | So you 're looking at a package holiday resort in Spain in the main . |
| 28 | I do n't like it when they 're sitting on the floor in front of the counter with their legs like that and they 're sitting there and you 're looking at the video and you think , well , I ca n't get that because that was made in nineteen-eighty-six and they might think I 'm a bit weedy , so I better get something that was made recently . |
| 29 | Fourteen two , erm the great problem is it 's easier to get if an afternoon meeting can finish at a reasonable time , then I can probably but erm I think if you , if you 're looking at the clock when home in the evening for a number of reasons it might be then I would this and unless we can sort of put a restricted time on the agenda which is impossible , I can imagine coming down here at two o'clock for the meeting . |
| 30 | Erm y'know it 's one of these things that er that 's often been rather condoned , o particularly if you 're looking at the education system . |