Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton . |
| 2 | Two days later Horst Teltschik ( CDU ) announced that he would be stepping down at the end of the year as Kohl 's foreign policy adviser at the Chancellery . |
| 3 | He seemed to be gazing up at the night sky . |
| 4 | Maybe in forty years time , people will be looking back at the good old days of the Nineties to see which rising stars started their careers playing North-East venues . |
| 5 | Every one hundred thousand Soviet immigrants delays by one year the deadline , soon they will be pouring in at the record rate of twenty a thousand month . |
| 6 | While the senior Scotland seven attempt to redeem themselves in Hong Kong , a second seven will be turning out at the Kilmarnock tournament on Sunday . |
| 7 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 8 | Oh of course do n't forget yester yesterday erm they allow so many in so you 'd all be going in at the same time |
| 9 | A detailed study of figure 1 will show that in the first three minutes after outbreak , the height of the flames grow approximately to the height of the ‘ level ’ of racking on which the fire started , by five minutes some four levels have been involved , and by seven minutes to eight minutes the flames will be breaking out at the top of the racking . |
| 10 | ‘ Our mothers and fathers will be coming over at the end of the summer for the presentation of prizes . ’ |
| 11 | She told Lizzie now that she would be coming down at the weekend and asked her if she would be kind enough to get her old room ready for her . |
| 12 | You 're supposed to be sitting up at the table . |
| 13 | because if he put the bath right in there , I would be standing up at the end of the bath |
| 14 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 15 | You 'll still be working up at the farm and I 'll be having my midday meals up there , same as I do now . |