Example sentences of "[conj] i [be] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your letter arrived early last week — Tuesday — and I picked it up as I was on my way out of the guest house where I 'm staying at the moment . |
| 2 | If Paul or Erlend or I were to die at Siward 's hand , you would feet as he does . |
| 3 | Although I was born at Sleetburn further up the dale , I came here when I was three years old , so I do not recall any other place as home . |
| 4 | Although I was walking at a normal pace the impact stunned me . |
| 5 | I like to think that I am laughing at the idea , which has as real a set of consequences as bombs in a Tom and Jerry cartoon . |
| 6 | Who would think from the urbanity of this week 's column that I am sitting at my keyboard shivering , sniffing , coughing and streaming like a tubercular poet of the 1890s ? |
| 7 | ‘ So you might like to know , ’ he said , studiedly casual , ‘ that I 'm staying at the Plaza . ’ |
| 8 | If the circle that I 'm looking at is six miles , which you 've implied it is . |
| 9 | Well I mean it 's , this it 's patrol , it 's two patrol tents in particular that I 'm looking at , if they 've got some decent er scout tents |
| 10 | Its her that I 'm vexed at . |
| 11 | And yet I find that I 'm disturbed at the thought of what the world would look like in the wake of an amateur home porn video-led fashion revolution . |
| 12 | I borrowed a modest amount to buy my house , that I could easily meet within the finances that I 'm getting at the moment . |
| 13 | the very fact that I 'm sitting at university , |
| 14 | I refused to have a mastectomy and I see now in terms of theory , that I was stagemanaged at various points on the production line , into trying to turn me into a well-behaved patient by traumatising me by saying ‘ If you do n't do what we tell you … ’ or ‘ You 're being very naughty ’ or ‘ You 're being hysterical ’ , or ‘ We have n't got time to deal with all these questions , we 'd never get round ’ , and so on . |
| 15 | I was glad to accept the honour not so much for myself but for the cutter service as a whole when it was confirmed that I was to attend at Buckingham Palace the following summer . |
| 16 | No need for him to know that I was watching at the window . |
| 17 | Back in Cardiff , my name went up on the Honours Board and my father , in the last year before his retirement , quietly enjoyed the thought that I was to spend at least part of my life in the county in which his father had been born . |
| 18 | It is this that I was hinting at in the previous chapter , when I referred to the queen ant as the central data bank . |
| 19 | He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ? |
| 20 | These birds come from America , so they are difficult to get hold of and I had the added problem that I was looking at the end of the breeding season . |
| 21 | Kay was the name that I was called at home , my middle name , one of my father 's names , and I knew that Kay , the boy in The Snow Queen , was me , who had a lump of ice in her heart . |
| 22 | The whole time that I was working at Erith with Wartberg I would journey right across London every Friday afternoon to see Gyggle at his new office . |
| 23 | Suddenly I awoke to the fact that I was staring at a tree on the other side of the road and that this tree was green and delicate . |
| 24 | All the circumstances of the last charge brought against me point to the probability that I was arrested at the urgent instance of the Home Office . |
| 25 | I said the truth is , that he reported that I was sleeping at night . |
| 26 | I am not gon na move over and I am going at my own pace , so I slowed down to about twenty miles an hour and it 's a road about four miles long and er he just could n't get past , you know ? |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Well I was looking at you and I 'm snarling at you stop bloody messing like you always are messing . |
| 30 | It 's a very simple rhythm , but he had written the whole thing shifted over and I got the manuscript and I 'm looking at it and going ‘ Man , I know it 's been a while since I read a lot of solo guitar , but this does n't look right ! ’ |