Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 2 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 3 | Potter , thou shouldst be living at this hour . |
| 4 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 5 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 6 | Mr Campbell said that during the first incident , when Mr Friel and the two younger accused had been shouting at each other in the shopping centre , the lawyer had struck the 15-year-old on the face with the dog leash . |
| 7 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 8 | Booker had been working at Liberal News and , after receiving a letter from Usborne , whose proto-satirical magazine Mesopotamia at Oxford had centred around Foot , Ingrams , and John Wells , the product hit the streets or rather those streets in South Kensington to which Andrew Osmond , another Oxford contemporary , chose to distribute it . |
| 9 | About 700 men had been working at three pit levels up to 560 metres below the ground , over a 2 sq km area . |
| 10 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |
| 11 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 12 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
| 13 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 14 | But something about your comments worries me a great deal , and that 's the fact that many women tutors , you say , have been looking at this issue , but they have n't looked at the major part of the issue , which is from the students ' perspectives and the problem that goes on between students . |
| 15 | After all , the Central Council of Physical Recreation — of which the Duke is president — and the Sports Council , the two most powerful bodies in British sport , have been sniping at each other for years . |
| 16 | If you have been working at extreme depth and then call a halt do n't block the holes up . |
| 17 | We have been working at improving race relations in Britain for over 30 years , under successive Governments . |