Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I been told at his birth that he was not ‘ normal ’ I would probably have hoped he would have died before being taken home from hospital . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They have prepared me well , supported me through university , taught me the difference between right and wrong , so that I know which I am enjoying at any given time ! |
| 5 | But I am flattered at being considered . ’ |
| 6 | I am looking at a photograph of an adult dunnock , so small in comparison to its monstrous foster-child that it has to perch on its back in order to feed it . |
| 7 | I see a man up on the hill , but when as the minutes pass he does not move it occurs to me that what I am looking at must be a stone . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | This is because in saying what something looks like to me I am not saying something about something other than the thing I am looking at , its look . |
| 10 | As a mother I am looking at this girl . |
| 11 | I return to work on the spot with insights into what I am looking at and a clearer sense of intention . |
| 12 | ‘ The two precise problems I am looking at today are what financial means should be explored , and what partnership , with other European operators or if necessary an industrial company ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But I am looking at something from the previous century . |
| 15 | But while I am looking at it my eyes constantly wander from one flower to the next , pausing at some , ignoring others , picking out the details of their shapes and colours . |
| 16 | I am looking at the specific points that were made by the delegation to me earlier this month . |
| 17 | I am looking at the most magnificent townscape in London . |
| 18 | No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin . |
| 19 | I am looking at two lots of 35 in the long waveband and one lot of 32 in the medium waveband. 35 and 32 what ? |
| 20 | Yes , the softness I am looking at somehow irks me . |
| 21 | As this is the speech in which we see Cassius 's motives for killing Caesar , the other one I am looking at is Brutus 's soliloquy at the beginning of Act II scene I , giving his reasons for joining the conspiracy . |
| 22 | The theme I am looking at in this study is that of the illicit passions of married women and their escape from their places in society . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe I am clutching at straws , scraping the bottom of the barrel ? |
| 24 | Josnau a di chop — I am eating at the moment |
| 25 | ‘ I am staying at the Queen 's Head , ’ he managed to say . |
| 26 | One bird drifts overhead and I swear it is gazing at my quill-like yellow boat as I am gazing at its white tail . |
| 27 | My parents still do n't know what course I am pursuing at a college of education . |
| 28 | The list is longer , but what I am getting at is that it is going to be extremely expensive to cut down this pollution . |
| 29 | What I am getting at is that , in these historical cases , egalitarian ideas were tied in with the presumption that the proposition " all men are born equal " can be glossed " all men ( who are people like us ) are born equal " . |
| 30 | Let me try to explain what I am getting at . |