Example sentences of "i [be] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have prepared me well , supported me through university , taught me the difference between right and wrong , so that I know which I am enjoying at any given time ! |
| 2 | As a mother I am looking at this girl . |
| 3 | The point I am labouring at such length is that there is a large and complicated repertoire of non-verbal behaviour without which it is impossible to communicate meanings through the medium of spoken words and although it is tempting to regard this non-lexical repertoire as something which can be painlessly removed without any significant loss of meaning , the experience of reconstructing talk from a medium in which the representation of this aspect of speech is so poor is a salutary reminder of its importance . |
| 4 | But the case is different of course in modes of language use which are non-reciprocal , of which what I am doing at this moment is an obvious example . |
| 5 | I was damn good I knew everything , first I had to watch the accounts and secondly I 'm looking at all this stuff for when I start my business |
| 6 | I 'm looking at this pink spot on my chest when suddenly I notice a bit of Wormy bar stuck in my belly button . |
| 7 | The drawing packages I 'm looking at this month have more widespread practical use than the painting packages I reviewed last month . |
| 8 | Well , I 'm looking at this , we did n't promise not about this , any more than the community there once |
| 9 | I just certain , satisfy certain erm cattle requirements and carry on business in the sugar trade and of must done so for a period of time , I 'm looking at this , the third page in , top of the page , erm trade in office in London established without purpose erm now those the |
| 10 | Now see I 'm looking at this here , right , just for fitting in twelve games I mean , I 'm gon na have to start the first of May . |
| 11 | Yeah , travel line , and I says to her I said I 'm looking at this V F M bus timetable I says the five two , one I said it goes down ? |
| 12 | And if every , everybody brings a friend then you 're looking at fifty people , and I 'm not looking at fifty people , I 'm looking at this lot . |
| 13 | Yes , I 'm laughing at that because I know Kenny Dalglish will laugh when he reads it . |
| 14 | What I 'm doing at this point , actually , is jumping up and forcing the windows open to get some air into the room . |
| 15 | I were looking at that one |
| 16 | then I was looking at all the garden stuff , and and I thought well , start by the , and I thought I 'm doing a Joey ! |
| 17 | Yeah , I was looking at that myself yesterday actually and er if I include three , three Trident staff , erm there are thirty five individuals |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ey I was looking at that one . |
| 20 | I was looking at that bloke in the Metro going fuck me |
| 21 | Yes , I , I was looking at that one just now . |
| 22 | No wonder I like things I was looking at these tights , yeah , it 's just one pair , and they were about eight pounds |
| 23 | Er I was looking at these and er you get , you know , with the er a set of free |
| 24 | I was looking at some last night and they had erm privately owned cottages or |
| 25 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 26 | I was looking at this , and not at where I was putting my feet . |
| 27 | erm when I was looking at this , this picture of the , of the Brettan Girls , I erm , I was really particularly struck by the bo , the mild head of one of the dancers and the fact that she was rubbing her , her heal , erm and it gave me a voice for , for this poem , I was also drawn by the dismissal , there 's a goose in the painting , there 's four , four geese and one of them is dismissing the , the , the winner outright and erm I found his look very , very interesting and , and I could n't help but compare the lies of these four dancers with those within erm from the later period as the eye that , that , that Gaugin painted later on . |
| 28 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 29 | ‘ I was looking at this . ’ |
| 30 | Well what I was looking at this afternoon was your radiator comes through the floor . |