Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot
2 For most young children in that age group , the world 's a magic place and we traditionally like to teach them nature study and flowers and cuddly hamsters and rabbits in school , and that 's the nature table syndrome , and that 's great and I 'm not knocking that at all .
3 For most young children in that age group , the world 's a magic place and we traditionally like to teach them nature study and flowers and cuddly hamsters and rabbits in school , and that 's the nature table syndrome , and that 's great and I 'm not knocking that at all .
4 Bonanza would n't be wanting that at all .
5 once , no once , I 'm not buying that at all .
6 Leaders of large organisations will inevitably find problems in getting those at lower levels in the hierarchy to comply with their objectives — a problem illustrated by the frequent leaks of confidential memoranda and reports in Whitehall .
7 Practise applying your make-up so that it looks as though you 're not wearing any at all — it 's a real art , but it can be done !
8 So that makes it very easy to fill in , so I do n't mind doing that at all .
9 Ten years ago he would n't have dreamt of doing that at all , would he ?
10 Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else
11 But the Dutch stopped us from doing that at later funerals .
12 ‘ No , I 'm not saying that at all .
13 ‘ I 'm not saying that at all .
14 I 'm not saying that at all .
15 No , no I 'm not saying that at all .
16 You should n't be doing this at all .
17 I mean , we 've had them doing this at eight year old .
18 One advantage of doing this at this stage is that the reader will probably feel able to devote a little extra effort to learning this terminology as the statements of the theorems themselves will take little remembering — many of them should be fairly familiar to him already .
19 I mean , I de , I do , I agree with what , I do n't agree Scottish Homes charging this at all
20 This is of the same order of magnitude as Connell 's ( 1961 ) observation that N. lapillus could manage I.l 5. balanoides a day in summer , whilst consuming fewer at other times ( Table 4 ) .
21 The testing also serves to select patients suitable for rehabilitation ( excluding those at extreme ends of the fitness spectrum ) and in itself forms an important aspect of rehabilitation .
22 ‘ At the same time the support structure for the players is fundamental and we are already discussing that at working party level . ’
23 ‘ Oh , no , I was n't thinking that at all ! ’
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