Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | When I eventually arrived at the hospital I was feeling in the best of spirits and apparently shook the sisters by asking them to bring on the dancing girls . ’ |
2 | I just stared at the wall . |
3 | When I 'd finished , I did n't look at Mum and Dad , I just stared at the carpet . |
4 | Then she asked what had happened to Alec , because nobody had told her , and I just looked at a spot about a foot above her head and let Frank do the dirty work . |
5 | I just looked at the man , I thought , I oh god I ca n't cope with this ! |
6 | No I just looked at the clock that was all it was |
7 | There 's a serious , a serious side Lord Mayor , to that greeting cos I just looked at the number of companies that are owned this shareholders scheme that they like to promote , the number of companies that 're owned by foreign nationals . |
8 | Right so I just stopped at the paracetamol , and I says , Och , I 'd better not go back up . |
9 | When I finally moved at the end of September , it was an enormous step in my life . |
10 | I do n't know why but I see that more clearly now than I ever did at the time . |
11 | I also pressed at the city board for something to be done about this problem of the er people disappearing off the poll tax register at an alarming rate I must add . |
12 | Sir Henry and I both looked at the picture . |
13 | Maté and I now stood at the junction of the cathedral 's great T. The vertical limb of this overpowering architectural masterpiece sloped downwards . |
14 | The flat in West Kensington was really only three large , formerly elegant rooms , with ceilings so high that I often gaped at the room 's proportions , as if I were in a derelict cathedral . |
15 | I invariably sat at the back of the class for reasons not unconnected with gang warfare , and if I needed to glance at the blackboard there was always someone to show me roughly where it was . |
16 | I invariably sat at the back of the class for reasons not unconnected with gang warfare , and if I needed to glance at the blackboard there was always someone to show me roughly where it was . |
17 | I then looked at the section of the report headed ’ Economic Impact ’ where there was nothing at all about the damage to the coal industry . |
18 | ‘ I never noticed at the time . |
19 | I was so thankful she was well that I too laughed at the repartee . |
20 | Sir : I would like to relate to you an experience I recently had at a computer dealership on Oxford Road , Manchester , which I think may , in part , explain the ever downward spiralling morass computer retailing finds itself in . |
21 | Wilkes and Cobbett wrote for a society which still shuddered at the memory of the puritans and their censors , the good people appointed by Cromwell to license and to regulate the press . |
22 | These edicts were particularly important for all concerned in the opera-ballets in which the king himself frequently appeared at the climax of the action . |
23 | Another sore point was de Gaulle 's fondness for theatricality and rhetoric , which sometimes came at the expense of substance . |
24 | When Nan rushed in , pulling her hat and coat off as she came in , she laughingly looked at the clock and said , ‘ Made it all but a minute , miss . |
25 | How comes you only stayed at the Curry House ? |
26 | And then , when she only stared at the car without responding , he added , ‘ I said it was a matter of timing . |
27 | Certificates were awarded to the 63 girls who all passed at a variety of levels in the recent exams . |
28 | But if you just looked at the work he 's been churning out lately , without knowing anything about his business activities , you 'd wonder what had happened to him . |
29 | The chances are that , if you were all given a lot of time to write each essay without your notes and you just sat at a desk and had about three hours on each question , you 'd all do very well . |
30 | That 's part of the trouble , part of why he is so lonely , but she just looked at the carpet in silence , at the dark place where Luke had once spilled black coffee . |