Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondaries can usually be identified because they cluster around the larger primary , often forming chains and other small groups , and because the impacts producing them are at low angles and low speeds and so the craters are usually elongated . |
| 2 | With coughing , he opened his eyes and began groaning which was at least some sign of progress , and I started looking about to see how we were going to get out of what appeared to be uncomfortably like a prison . |
| 3 | When I got my first job out of training it was at Worthing in a juvenile leading role and I got my Equity card because I had been chosen . |
| 4 | The person who is writing it is at a meeting so you ca n't speak to him . ’ |
| 5 | He found himself wishing he was at home again , at Polly 's home , and could creep stealthily into the twins ' room and sit there as he sometimes had at night , on the floor among their discarded toys and cuddly animals , with his back to the wall , listening to the sound of their breathing . |
| 6 | Patrick was wishing he was at the wheel . |
| 7 | I see that Wetherall got MOTM for the game on Saturday from one of the tabloids , so much for me saying he was at fault for the goals . |
| 8 | Equally , it would be no defence to the charge of insulting behaviour founded upon , for example , handing out leaflets seeking to persuade soldiers to desert that it was not the leafleter 's intention to insult , so long as the leaflet was in fact insulting , and the person distributing it was at least aware that it might be regarded as insulting by the person to whom it was addressed . |
| 9 | you did touch earlier on about welcoming which is at the forefront of my mind all the time . |
| 10 | In distant times , Milford was a great whaling port , so maybe the folk who live around the haven are accustomed to shipping which is at the somewhat brutal end of sea trade . |
| 11 | I thought they were skiing one 's at first , and then I . |
| 12 | She smiled with relief , thinking he was at last calling off his proposal . |
| 13 | And when they 're flowering they 're at their best . |