Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do enough mumbling to yourself at the back of the shop when the child 's around , but when it comes to something constructive … ’ |
| 2 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 3 | The temple bells were clanging to their climax as Ramlal hurried past the door , clutching his precious document , and laughing to himself at the thought that the God had got nothing from him at all . |
| 4 | Bernard I must tell you , listening to you at the moment is Simon Wigg on one of our other lines erm just a word about Simon before I bring him in . |
| 5 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
| 6 | At eighty , eighty five , ninety ninety five , a hundred pounds and ten going to you at the back , going on , sir ? |
| 7 | ‘ She 's hardly speaking to me at the moment — except to accuse me of stealing her golf-clubs . ’ |
| 8 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 9 | And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed . |
| 10 | I must admit my first reaction was that it was a leg-pull ; there were always joke letters coming to me at the studio . |
| 11 | I remember an English don once coming to me at the end of a meeting , and saying that she had suddenly seen that evening in Jesus Christ the answer to the rather negative existentialist framework into which her life had been cast . |
| 12 | ‘ Thankfully I 've forgotten it all now and I have to look at it as something that was flattering to me at the time . |
| 13 | It was like climbing a waterfall , but there was a warder at the top , clinging to a railing and yelling to us at the top of his voice to hurry — as if we needed such encouragement . |
| 14 | although no doubt they are doing the best they can for you Mr , erm , but I mean that 's why , that 's what I was putting to you at the beginning . |
| 15 | I have seen him striding through Soho eating a sandwich and talking to himself at the same time , oblivious to the cars and traffic and noise around him , deep in thought . |
| 16 | Human possums avoid conflict by agreeing with whichever side is talking to them at the time . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've made sure that I am seen talking to you at the time of this man 's arrest in a public place . |
| 18 | Our classification of references to the care programme approach along a hypothetical assimilation-adaptation continuum suggests that roughly half of local authorities which mention the care programme approach in their plans seemed to have assimilated it , and half were adapting to it at the time of composing the community care plan . |
| 19 | You can do things for yourself in the way of diet , exercise , good lifestyle , not smoking and so on but , a lot of women will need hormone replacement therapy just to replace the hormones that dear old mother nature stop supplying to us at the menopause . |
| 20 | I 'm smiling to myself at the kitchen table now . |
| 21 | Smiling to herself at the thought , and confident that it was now too late to be interrupted further , Alexandra went upstairs . |
| 22 | ‘ I was just telling you that I reckon it was a good idea — to wait a day before going back to New York , ’ Carole repeated , smiling to herself at the other girl 's slightly abstracted expression . |
| 23 | I recognised those questions as pertaining to myself at the time I became anorexic . |