Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pers pn] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of kids are on a roundabout , one foot on and one foot off , they are pushing it at a giddy speed , round and around until their faces form a single banded blur . |
| 2 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 3 | . So to work out how much energy you 're using is , how quickly am I using up energy , well I 'm using it at a rate of ten kilowatts . |
| 4 | Everybody has them and something must be holding you at a given height above the ground ! ’ |
| 5 | Maureen Stone 's arguments that multicultural education is based on a deprivation model of black children explain how multiracial education may actually be placing them at a disadvantage . |
| 6 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 7 | We were following them at a good clip . |
| 8 | So a three kilowatt fire is using it at a terrific rate , it 's running away with electricity . |
| 9 | A er twenty five watt lamp in the fridge is using it at a very low rate , it 's hardly using any electricity . |
| 10 | It 's edited by Outdoor Action 's editor Laura McCaffrey and we are offering it at a very special price . |
| 11 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 12 | we 're used to a lot of Shakespeare 's archaisms because he was studying them at A level and Shakespeare 's got so a special sort of band of them that he uses . |
| 13 | The official story is that he was playing it at a party and people wanted to hear it over and over . |