Example sentences of "and [pron] [be] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’ |
| 2 | And now , on a clear morning , Graham Little and I are sitting at the bottom of the wall , fit and ready to go , and the wall is plastered with verglas . |
| 3 | Er in so much as I mean I must admit with these increases , I appreciate your need to get the extra profits and I 'm looking at the ones where I think we can push them to get a bit more . |
| 4 | And I 'm getting at the hygienist today ? |
| 5 | Oh , no I 'll let you listen to it later , I ca n't be bo I 've only just played it and I 'm recording at the moment so , I 'll let you listen to it in a while . |
| 6 | Well , er we 're very lucky that er Oxford 's pretty well covered , yes , we 've , or could do with some more volunteers of course , but we 've got about one hundred and twenty people who 'll be going out in the city , and I was looking at a map this morning and it 's very well covered indeed with purple and yellow lines where we 've actually got people on the ground . |
| 7 | We went to this very flash restaurant and I was really nervous , you know the feeling — anyway blood was rushing , and I was looking at the menu — my French is pretty good — and I thought I 'd fancy a pork cutlet . |
| 8 | I was just checking here in from the book by and I was looking at the chapter here on Roses Rivetus and er and it was on the mission to Munster here that er Third Combat Mission once a day for three days ' running was to Munster it was this ill-fated mission that made the reputation as the bloody Hundredth and of course this is the one that he only came back from . |
| 9 | Campaign on a what do you call it and erm and funny enough I was reading the Campaign yesterday and I was looking at the er thing and they 've got a sale on have n't they ? |
| 10 | And I was looking at the drills , and |
| 11 | Half a mile , and he was right up my arse and I was going at a far pace |
| 12 | This guy went out with Lee next day , and I was standing at the back of the 9th green when Lee 's manager came running up to me and said , ‘ Willie , you 've got to take the bag — Lee 's fired the other guy . ’ |
| 13 | The crimps were of course very active and I was told at the time that they would be paid as much as two pounds for every man whom they recruited . |
| 14 | On Feb. 24 de Klerk announced the date of the referendum — March 17 — and the wording of the question to which voters would have to respond with a yes or a no : " Do you support continuation of the reform process which the State President began on Feb. 2 , 1990 [ see p. 37232 ] , and which is aimed at a new constitution through negotiation ? " |
| 15 | In a " whites-only " referendum on March 17 , 68.6 per cent of voters responded positively to the question : " Do you support continuation of the reform process which the State President began on Feb. 2 , 1990 [ see p. 37232 ] , and which is aimed at a new constitution through negotiation ? " |
| 16 | The precise restrictions the Committee recommended , and which were imposed at the beginning of the experiment , may be summarised as follows : |
| 17 | Tack on VAT at the standard rate , and you are looking at a total tax take of £1.33 ( surprisingly , the same as on diesel ) and £1.60 respectively . |
| 18 | And you 're looking at a video and they sit there looking at you like that |
| 19 | I think it 's quite important to orientate ourselves first , and you 're looking at a map of Oxford in 1643 , erm and 17th century maps for the most part are what we should call upside down . |
| 20 | You prefer well packaged routine holidays in popular tourism destinations and you 're looking at the three Ss or four Ss we should say . |
| 21 | I do n't like it when they 're sitting on the floor in front of the counter with their legs like that and they 're sitting there and you 're looking at the video and you think , well , I ca n't get that because that was made in nineteen-eighty-six and they might think I 'm a bit weedy , so I better get something that was made recently . |
| 22 | And you were working at the ski-shop in order to keep body and soul together ? ’ |
| 23 | The odds are that a relationship that engenders such trust in infancy will continue to engender it in later childhood too , and who is to say at the end of it all that one period was more crucial than another in bringing about the final result ? |
| 24 | Her name was Clasina Maria Hoornik and she was born at The Hague in February , 1850 . |
| 25 | A minute later her head was as high as the tallest tree in the wood , and she was looking at a sea of green leaves . |
| 26 | For the first time in her life she felt as if the veil had been stripped from her idol and she was looking at the real person who hid away inside a beautiful body , seeing her through the eyes of others who had no family love for her to colour what they saw . |
| 27 | And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ? |
| 28 | Doctor Rossitter came and dressed Susan 's arm , which he said was much better ; and in the afternoon Breeze left her sister safely tucked up and she was knocking at the Vicarage door on the stroke of three . |
| 29 | Erm , right , we 'll have Shirley as the client , and we 're a life company and we 're looking at the cost of providing Shirley with life cover . |
| 30 | But Athens gave the Games to the world , and we 're looking at the next one hundred years and if the I O C wants to do something special with Athens in ‘ 96 and if Athens wants to do it , we assure them that Atlanta will support that effort one hundred per cent . |