Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 2 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 3 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 4 | I turned to look at the young man beside me , his long fingered hands resting on the steering wheel . |
| 5 | ‘ I turned to look at the retreating figures of my two friends , feeling unbearably isolated , and went to eat alone in the cafeteria . ’ |
| 6 | I decided to look at the local statistics for asthma deaths in West Cumbria from the public health department for the years 1980 to 1989 . |
| 7 | As I made my way home and tried to comprehend the logic of taking another batsman on board , I kept arriving at the same conclusion — that I 'd be better off out of it . |
| 8 | It 's a pure technicality , Mr chairman , but I did ask at the previous meeting er , that the erm , director of property services respond to me on a matter relating to Wootton Bassett magistrate 's court , If we have such a large amount of money that we can spend I think the questions that I posed then , er are relevant and I would appreciate a reply . |
| 9 | ‘ Life has changed , Shama , ’ I said looking at the Japanese thermos on the chair by my bed and the round box of Danish biscuits which I had been given ‘ in case you are hungry in the night ’ . |
| 10 | I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap . |
| 11 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 12 | I had started at the Royal College of Music , and the atmosphere there was at first hostile to volunteering . |
| 13 | I had to park at The Three Pigeons I could n't get in ! |
| 14 | Knowing that I had to start at a new school in the city , with new people and new teachers , I began to worry all over again . |
| 15 | ‘ Dorset , ’ someone had said at a recent dinner . |
| 16 | I sat staring at the empty screen for a long time , oblivious of everything around me , including Frejji 's cursing as she struggled with interfield links . |
| 17 | Fifteen minutes later , or it may have been twenty , I stood staring at a caged lift : the chest-flexing iron lattice , the accordion doors . |
| 18 | You did n't think I intended to stay at the Crowned Head , did you ? ’ |
| 19 | If I wanted to point at the put directory . |
| 20 | ‘ No , I 've been to the office , and I wanted to look at the projected sales figures for this quarter . |
| 21 | To put it more simply , I wanted to look at the reciprocal interaction between individuals and their immediate social world . |
| 22 | It was seventeen years after President Kennedy 's assassination , twelve years since Bobby 's , but the idea was so powerful nobody turned to look at the shattered window or the stunned lad . |
| 23 | The new US position led to a closing of ASEAN ranks , with little evidence of the internal quarrelling over Cambodia which had surfaced at the 22nd annual meeting of Foreign Ministers in Brunei in 1989 . |
| 24 | The New York Times of Aug. 14 reported that Iraq had transferred between US$3,000 million and $5,000 million in gold , foreign currency and goods from Kuwait and that this had significantly increased Iraq 's financial reserves which had stood at an estimated US$6,500 million before the invasion . |
| 25 | This friend suggested that there might be something which had happened at an earlier stage in Kirsty 's life which was causing her health to deteriorate now . |
| 26 | He cursed himself inwardly for this sudden indisposition , which had come at the worst possible moment . |
| 27 | Nestorius himself had studied at the theological school of Antioch , where his mentor was a man known as Theodore of Mopsuestia . |
| 28 | Once or twice Carolan himself had hinted at the moral justification of force to secure the people 's just demands , but he was careful to remain within the law , and when challenged in Parliament would observe loftily that he spoke philosophically , and that he could trust the good sense of the English people to interpret his views correctly . |
| 29 | ‘ Are you listening to me ? ’ he demanded when she failed to laugh at the right point . |
| 30 | Southall , who admitted speeding at an earlier hearing , was fined Pounds 700 and given six penalty points . |