Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] at the [noun] " 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 | I just looked at the man , I thought , I oh god I ca n't cope with this ! |
| 5 | No I just looked at the clock that was all it was |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Right so I just stopped at the paracetamol , and I says , Och , I 'd better not go back up . |
| 8 | When I finally moved at the end of September , it was an enormous step in my life . |
| 9 | I do n't know why but I see that more clearly now than I ever did at the time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sir Henry and I both looked at the picture . |
| 12 | Maté and I now stood at the junction of the cathedral 's great T. The vertical limb of this overpowering architectural masterpiece sloped downwards . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I goofishly hovered at the edges of her very own unique drama . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Another sore point was de Gaulle 's fondness for theatricality and rhetoric , which sometimes came at the expense of substance . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | How comes you only stayed at the Curry House ? |
| 25 | While the kettle was boiling , she idly glanced at the letters . |
| 26 | And then , when she only stared at the car without responding , he added , ‘ I said it was a matter of timing . |
| 27 | Unlike Onofre Marimon ( ARG ) , Peter Collins ( GB ) , Carel Godin de Beaufort ( HOL ) and John Taylor ( GB ) , who all died at the Nurburgring , Lauda was spared his life , but was badly scared . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 30 | She hardly glanced at the plate and did n't ask about the spinach . |