Example sentences of "[noun] be [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The backs of my legs were trembling at that time , but this was probably as much due to the cold as to the feeling of betrayal that had invaded my being . |
| 2 | Claire and Kezia were looking at each other and saying nothing . |
| 3 | Again the two brothers were pushing at each other and as they all mounted the steps Ellen stepped and walked by the side of her son , something she was in the habit of doing whenever they were in company , and which Joe had been aware of from the time she had recovered after his uncle 's death . |
| 4 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 5 | Her love of coaching was developing at this stage too . |
| 6 | The total area of the interface , over which the spreading is occurring at any instant , is determined by these larger eddies . |
| 7 | That erm the county council is pursuing at this er at this alteration . |
| 8 | That Farr-Jones is playing at all this season is a surprise to those who listened to his post-World Cup speeches about taking a break from the game . |
| 9 | May and she she an old boy come in in the week , Carole had Friday afternoon off an old boy was knocking at all these doors and something to do with erm put a tape recorder in your house |
| 10 | The plotting room was suddenly silent and the flag was flying at half mast for all to see on the garrison church at Moascar , Ismailia . |
| 11 | ‘ Like making sure there were separate shower facilities and a chaperon if only one girl was attending at any one time . ’ |
| 12 | This can occur if plants are operating at less than minimum efficiency scale ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 13 | This is determined by the gradient of the average cost curve , and by the degree to which plants are operating at less than MES . |
| 14 | Now the allies are tearing at each other in a savage grab for territory . |
| 15 | Beneath it , two geese were pecking at some grain . |
| 16 | But the other two Palestinians were shouting at each other in Hebrew . |
| 17 | Memory and imagination were grappling at each other 's throats , and these people would lose if he lay here much longer . |
| 18 | The first speaker should not be the one who discovers whether the microphone is working at all . |
| 19 | Alain was glaring at both of them , not one ounce of give in his attitude . |
| 20 | These differences are an indication of the unique way in which each individual is responding to the circumstances in which he finds himself and of the state of that person as a whole , that is they show how his healing powers are operating at that time . |
| 21 | Although some waste minimisation projects are already being commissioned , businesses are looking at more . |
| 22 | Borough council officers are looking at several ways of helping disabled motorists to shop in the town once High Row and Skinnergate become off bounds to them on March 29 . |
| 23 | or whatever , just let them know roughly what you 're doing , cos , all they get is a tape , it gives them an idea of what sort of things were happening at that time , any words they ca n't pick up if she 's cooking , maybe that 's something she was making or whatever , erm , in the please write the first names and details , why you know them , of all the people speaking on this side of the tape , in order in which they speak on the tape in the first , first instance , right , you know , so now Carla , my husband , myself , Lee and , you do n't need to repeat them again after that |
| 24 | On relating the story to Mr Bailey , the man asked whether a train service was running at that time of night . |
| 25 | China was expanding at such a rate that some experts were predicting that by the year two thousand the world would be dominated by Chinese people , both numerically and in their demand for resources . |
| 26 | When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed . |
| 27 | These formed far and away the largest group in the population of Europe , and it is the evidence that their numbers were expanding rapidly which offers the most substantial proof that the population of western Christendom as a whole was rising at this time . |
| 28 | First , it is clear that they would need to be mutually oriented ; they would each need to be aware of what the other was doing at any time . |
| 29 | People are grabbing at each other and pushing , pulling and scuffling , or twisting in the air with imaginary opponents , urging their own version of violence . |
| 30 | I 'm not sure just who where , how people are arriving at these two decisions . |