Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment . |
| 2 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
| 3 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
| 4 | Not simply because it shows that you are enjoying yourself at that moment but because it actually contributes to your physical and mental health . |
| 5 | I take it you have n't been keeping her at home and just not sent a note ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |
| 8 | Every other day we 're using it at the moment . |
| 9 | If you 're basing yourself at one campsite place an old groundsheet or plastic sheet under the tent . |
| 10 | You 're eliminating one at a time . |
| 11 | People always need clothes do n't they and they 'll always buy them off you if you 're selling them at half price … |
| 12 | So , you have to think about who you 're aiming it at . |
| 13 | We 're aiming it at , at private individuals — people who 've got an interest in the Stock Exchange , and are trying to update their interest and get as much information as they can about it . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're having it at the end of January … ’ |
| 15 | They 're having it at the co , at the university because David 's mother has some connection . |
| 16 | They 're doing something at the boy 's school , but we 're not doing anything personally . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're dropping you at Shepherd 's Market , ’ the woman said loudly , as if to someone disabled . |
| 18 | It is called benefit and and the well being of those kids about there , that we 're educating them at our own school , that they can have jobs and work , and if this is going , my fear is , okay we can live within this , s as you say , it may that it 's just bad settlement for one year . |
| 19 | perhaps the Company 's lack of comment on its own future , which must increasingly have been worrying them at the turn of the century . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As Mager has truthfully ( and unnervingly ) said : " If you are teaching skills that can not be evaluated , you are in the awkward position of being unable to demonstrate that you are teaching anything at all . " |
| 22 | Though she was completely covered she might just as well have been wearing nothing at all . |
| 23 | In which case , it seems worth asking why I am considering them at all within the limited confines of this book . |
| 24 | Hard-up families are buying them at £3.60 each to fatten up at home . |
| 25 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 26 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 27 | ‘ I am saying nothing at all , ’ she said . |
| 28 | If you go for a ten year fix , Bank of Scotland are doing it at about eight point nine nine . |
| 29 | ‘ You should n't be eating them at all . |
| 30 | Several older NCT children have started school this year so we sha n't be seeing them at Open Houses now … |