Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone dined together at a plain wooden table more suited to the kitchen or servants ' quarters than the guests ' dining room , and the fare was similarly lacking in charm . |
| 2 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 3 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 4 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 5 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |
| 6 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 7 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 8 | Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene . |
| 9 | I called in at the wrong time . |
| 10 | I stared up at the grey sky and the black ravens which circled above the battlements like the souls of men condemned to wander the earth forever . |
| 11 | As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona . |
| 12 | I stared down at the white face of the ratman . |
| 13 | First , I looked again at an old favourite , Arthur Eddington 's The Nature of the Physical World ( Cambridge The detailed insights provided by Mehra and Rechenburg put this in a fresh perspective ( and Eddington still stands up , half a century later , as a superb writer who knew how to present his material ) . |
| 14 | But when I looked again at the taut group riveted to the game , now not even speaking , I had my doubts . |
| 15 | I looked round the room , then I looked again at the old man . |
| 16 | I looked again at the little cat . |
| 17 | I felt sure that if Mr Reed had lived he would have treated me kindly , and now , as I looked round at the dark furniture and the walls in shadow , I began to fear that his ghost might come back to punish his wife for not keeping her promise . |
| 18 | I looked round at the two dead Germans lying in the middle of the road . |
| 19 | I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old . |
| 20 | Slowly I looked around at the other boys . |
| 21 | I looked around at the other passengers and tried to start a conversation . |
| 22 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
| 23 | As I approached I looked wonderingly at the slight figure with the soft fairish hair falling over his brow , at the holed cardigan and muck-encrusted wellingtons . |
| 24 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |
| 25 | I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin . |
| 26 | Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room . |
| 27 | I looked up at the French NCO , he steps forward and orders two Germans to pick up their Officer and the other two to pick up and carry the wounded Commando . |
| 28 | I looked up at the concrete-grey sky , still surprisingly free of graffiti . |
| 29 | I looked apprehensively at the five operating-type tables spaced far from each other round the wide tiled room . |
| 30 | I looked doubtfully at the rickety structure of planks and corrugated iron . |