Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water , in which no creature could prosper , and the dockside crowds of welcome floating and swimming above like tropical fish . |
| 2 | I pawed at the hairy form . |
| 3 | I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger . |
| 4 | I knock at the wood-plank door and it sounds as empty as a politician 's promise . |
| 5 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 6 | One Christmas Eve I woke at the critical moment , and saw , not Santa Claus , but three familiar figures indulging in heavy horse play at the foot of the bed . |
| 7 | Rachel and I wait at the little barrier in the station terminus , and again I think what an ordinary pair of holidaymakers we must look — too tatty to be honeymooners , but the same kind of contentment together . |
| 8 | I look at the dark house in front of me and the screens of tall shrubs and young trees on either side concealing the two neighbouring villas . |
| 9 | During the spring , I look at the new beech leaves . |
| 10 | I look at the short-term programme and er see , yeah . |
| 11 | For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys . |
| 12 | When I look at the European Community I see foreign policy and internal security pillars and ask myself how well the Government have been able to keep them purely intergovernmental and how many commitments we are making that will damage British interests in the future . |
| 13 | I look at the false leg for a bit while he pulls up his trouser leg . |
| 14 | I 'm in bed reading , so I look at the little security system we have , look at the screen — I do n't know this chap , he 's obviously drunk , and obviously ex-public school . |
| 15 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 16 | ‘ We must hold our nerve , ’ Malik was saying , ‘ and have someone look at the damn manuscript . |
| 17 | I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 18 | I found fifteen waiting for me when I arrived at the Awash Station , all thoroughly unhappy at the prospect ahead . |
| 19 | As I arrived at the recent show of Eileen Cooper 's drawings at the Benjamin Rhodes Gallery after visiting the controversial ( read media-hype ) show , Strange Developments , at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery , I could not help but find great comfort in the sheer generosity of spirit with which these big drawings greet you . |
| 20 | When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch . |
| 21 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
| 22 | I weep at the impending demise of my oldest and supportive friend ! |
| 23 | ‘ Get someone to look at the new evidence you turned up . |
| 24 | I glance at the front door : no one showing yet . |
| 25 | I glance at the wrought-iron gate : it 's a long way off . |
| 26 | Just then , someone knocked at the front door . |
| 27 | After breakfast the next day , someone knocked at the front door . |
| 28 | Ten minutes ago I knocked at the front door , waited in the street . |
| 29 | ‘ Ca n't you give up this living ? ’ she asks , and I stare at the invisible ceiling . |
| 30 | Over a hasty meal , I glanced at the Official Guide to County Meath , a gift from the manager . |