Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] at the " 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 | Q When I am looking at the ingredients in a hair product what should I be looking for to identify it as a quality product ? |
| 4 | What a queasy period those inter-war years now seem ( I am looking at the chicken curry ) , the old hatreds and prejudices simmering and bubbling nicely with all the dark , irrational fears surfacing in a way that rational people like Cohn-Casson believed had long ago been rendered obsolete by the evolutionary nature of society . |
| 5 | I am looking at the specific points that were made by the delegation to me earlier this month . |
| 6 | I am looking at the most magnificent townscape in London . |
| 7 | Josnau a di chop — I am eating at the moment |
| 8 | ‘ I am staying at the Queen 's Head , ’ he managed to say . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Aycliffe had better post an advertisement to that effect , then , before I am burned at the stake ! ’ |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I am devastated at the verdict . ’ |
| 11 | I am not rejecting the idea of Jesus being my representative — all I am doing at the moment is to point out some difficulties with it when it is considered as the central idea in the atonement theory . |
| 12 | What I am doing at the moment — pretending to have given up while backsliding every chance I get — is marginally better than full-time smoking ; the trouble is that it runs every risk of turning into it . |
| 13 | I expect Hamish will be writing again pretty soon again too , but here I am sitting at the computer anyway , putting off writing a series of begging letters to friends and connections in various educational and other institutions and organizations asking them to submit to Chambers Harrap ( as we now are ) all partable-with unpublished bumf ( memos , minutes , notices , reports , etc , etc ) to swell the ‘ ephemera ’ ( new stretched meaning ) content of the British National Corpus of English . |
| 14 | ‘ Fitness if often a psychological thing — if you think fit , you will be fit , and that 's how I am feeling at the moment . ’ |
| 15 | It will be objected that love-making necessarily includes an irrational , a Dionysian , element that is obscured by what I am saying at the moment . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 'm busting at the legs man . |
| 18 | I 'm shouting at the 4th one not to do them so tight because I could n't move my fingers and they just told me to shut my mouth and go quietly . |
| 19 | I 'm stood at the tee throwing the clubs up in the air and whooping away and he just turns to me and says , ‘ Do n't get too excited , Jacky . |
| 20 | I 'm suprised at the lack of SCUM bashing on the server . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I 'm staying at the Hilton . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm staying at the Windrush — along the coast . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm staying at the Hôtel d'Angleterre . |
| 25 | I 'm staying at the Shelbourne . |
| 26 | ‘ So you might like to know , ’ he said , studiedly casual , ‘ that I 'm staying at the Plaza . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm staying at the Ca ’ del Leone , a palazzo on the Grand Canal . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm staying at the Hilton , and — ’ |
| 29 | ‘ If you should change your mind , I 'm staying at the Holiday Inn . |
| 30 | I 'm staying at the farmhouse — last year I lodged in the village . ’ |