Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [conj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could be just the way you 're thinking and feeling at the time , allied to a little bit of luck , a natural rhythm . ’ |
| 2 | Having carried out the research , let's say we know where we are going and arrive at a beautiful river . |
| 3 | But certainly he 'll be pushing and pushing at the front there and making runs to get in the back all night I 'm I 'm certain of that . |
| 4 | I have enjoyed reading ZZAP ! since early 1987 ( issue 25 ) and have seen many Editors come and go ( I do n't know whether I 'm coming or going at the moment — Ed ) . |
| 5 | While the CNAA had been debating and arriving at a new policy statement , a considerable diversity of approaches had developed in the institutions . |
| 6 | General Carson laid down the slip of paper he had been studying and looked at the colonel seated across the table from him . |
| 7 | Duties are changing and accumulating at a faster rate than they can be successfully discharged . |
| 8 | In a recent case , section 54(13) of the Metropolitan Police Act 1839 was used successfully against two men who were kissing and cuddling at a bus stop in Oxford Street at 1.55 a.m . |
| 9 | The film both fulfils the Powell-Pressburger partnership 's aim to produce ‘ original stories , written for the screen , keeping pace with events and trying to put into action what people were thinking and saying at the time , ’ which is what the more obviously documentarist filmmakers were also trying to do , and articulates its own vision of the mystical forces in nature , culminating in the healing miracle that arrives for each of the three Canterbury pilgrims on their way to the cathedral . |
| 10 | The two young McLaggans were taunting and prodding at a trio of hostages , Thomson the constable , Bisset the minister , and the old soldier Major Alexander McGlashan of Eastertyre ; they stood in a huddle with their eyes staring , while young McCulloch staggered up to them and shoved stalks of bracken into their hair . |
| 11 | It 's sludging and scaling at the same time . |
| 12 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 13 | A small boy in pyjamas put down the basket he was weaving and looked at the face for a second or two , then turned back to his basket . |
| 14 | Nails was laughing and shivering at the same time , so excited that he felt almost ill with it . |
| 15 | Suddenly the anguish was gone and she was laughing and crying at the same time . |
| 16 | I was shivering and sweating at the same time . |
| 17 | Someone was squealing and crying at the same time , as if caught in a trap . |
| 18 | He was groaning and clawing at the pillow . |
| 19 | John was burgling and dealing at the same time , so we had a regular supply , like . |
| 20 | He was crying and laughing at the same time . |
| 21 | Everyone was drinking but scattered at the sight of Bill Sykes but this little girl went back on stage to finish her drink ! |
| 22 | He fiddled with a piece of card he was carrying and glowered at the exit to the Customs hall as if he was expecting his worst enemy to come through the door . |
| 23 | The men wore short kilts of grey homespun , their hair was flowing or knotted at the back , most were bearded : the uplanders had arrived from the Glen of Keltney . |
| 24 | … Everybody was talking and gesticulating at the same time . ’ |
| 25 | Hilary Frome , stretched face down along the floor , was writhing and retching at the top of the stairs . |