Example sentences of "they [am/are] [v-ing] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is understood they are staying at another holiday camp in Towyn . |
| 2 | Detectives say they are looking at possible links with recent assaults on women in Oxford . |
| 3 | They are looking at four possible sites . |
| 4 | They are looking at some wire wool that has rusted . |
| 5 | They are moving at good speed — we are on one of Odd-Knut 's prepared training runs — perhaps topping 30kph on the level sections . |
| 6 | New car registrations — only half a million in 1958 — jumped in 1963 to more than a million ( Today , they are running at two million . ) |
| 7 | They are caught very well since they are travelling at top speed . |
| 8 | The most effective method is that of asking all members of a sample of households to keep diaries , noting what they are doing at all times of the day . |
| 9 | In a design of this kind , where the flowers and leaves are built up in layers , you should try to look at the outline that will be visible ( in this case , the outer leaves ) , and make sure that they are lying at pleasing angles . |
| 10 | It seems to me that they are describing at first hand a world made up of physical materials similar to those which we can see and touch , with an invisible ( to most of us ) non-material life force much like the ether superimposed on it and within it . |
| 11 | I think they 're looking at all the |
| 12 | I find myself looking over my shoulder to see what it is they 're looking at that way . |
| 13 | Yeah , but they 're looking at this tape and they 're saying cor they 're a bunch of fucking thickos are n't they ? |
| 14 | ‘ They 're meeting at nine — we 've just got time . ’ |
| 15 | So they 're going at fifty five metres every twenty seconds , and you can imagine Peter O'Sullivan , now look at this Pip , they 're going at a , a nice steady fifty five metres every twenty seconds , what 's that in metres per second ? |
| 16 | I mean they 're going at seventy and eighty miles an hour . |
| 17 | Just as well really ; when they go into the diamond formation , the trade mark of the Red Arrows , their wings are only 10ft apart and they 're travelling at 400 mph . |
| 18 | They 're promoting themselves to a very significant extent on the basis that they 're selling at cheaper prices to the public . |
| 19 | But do you find that children really understand what they 're doing at all in any sensible way ? |
| 20 | There 's that nice family sitting round the table on the wallchart , they 're smiling at each other while mother does the washing up . |