Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself gazing at the harmonium and my memories of the happy times I 'd spent listening to Miss Louise play came flooding back and I wept more . |
| 2 | One horrible night I found myself crouched at the door , listening for sounds of pain which would have given me pleasure , sounds of pleasure that would have hurt . |
| 3 | ‘ I told you to stay at the house . ’ |
| 4 | I heard him growling at the crowd . |
| 5 | I watched her sipping at the stuff , making faces . |
| 6 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 7 | I 've watched Casualty on TV often enough , so I knew what to expect at the hospital : lots of furrowed brows and swishing cubicle curtains . |
| 8 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |
| 9 | But the comm-screen exposes faces in the harshest detail , and for an instant I saw something move at the back of his wet old eyes , like a creature threshing in a net . |
| 10 | ‘ When I was walking up to Keble Road yesterday I saw someone standing at the bus-stop outside St Giles ’ Church , waiting to get up to Summertown . |
| 11 | ‘ Fair enough — I kept you waiting at the Company office . |
| 12 | I had them processed at the one-hour place , cost me a fortune but … |
| 13 | Secondly , and most serious , are allegations of ‘ Clever Hans ’ errors ; named after the German horse early in the century that gave correct answers to arithmetical problems shown it on a blackboard ( by tapping with its hoof ) until it was unmasked as reacting to unwitting symptoms of tension in its trainer which caused it to stop at the right moment . |
| 14 | However his teachers recognised his exceptional qualities and he was given junior teaching posts which enabled him to register at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained his Master 's degree and began to work towards a PhD , specialising in philosophy . |
| 15 | On the feet were home-made boots with double tongues : ‘ They were made by the village cobbler and cost fourteen shillings : they 'd last about two years if you got them clumped at the end of the first year . ’ |
| 16 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 17 | Again she found herself trembling at the thought . |
| 18 | And she found herself smiling at the stark contrast between the two figures — the small passive figure of the elderly servant and the dynamic , vivid figure of the dark-haired man . |
| 19 | As the sound of his car died away she found herself staring at the blank windows of Ivy Cottage across the lane . |
| 20 | As she walked she tore at the seal , unfolding the single sheet . |
| 21 | Lady Dawkins , who had never heard him speak before , surprised herself by her reaction when she heard him speak at the Albert Hall in January 1912 : |
| 22 | She heard him gasp at the sheer beauty of her superb feminine body . |
| 23 | Her finely shaped brows met in dark disapproval as she watched him pick at the lock with a thin piece of wire that he had produced from somewhere in the depths of his pocket . |
| 24 | The home-help , too , had seen films on television : she knew what happened at the scene of a crime . |
| 25 | As they passed through the hall , she saw him glance at the picture that was hanging there , and asked him on an impulse if he knew who the original was . |
| 26 | He watched her climb on to the chair , and she saw him grin at the sight of her sore rump , which she thought must burn as brightly as any beacon . |
| 27 | She saw them standing at the window looking at someone in the garden with great interest . |
| 28 | Sometimes far into the evening she kept herself locked at the desk , writing , writing . |
| 29 | ‘ How tactless of me , ’ she said to herself , and to cover up the awkwardness she felt she pointed at the statue . |
| 30 | Even now , she felt herself cringe at the way he 'd said ‘ little scientist ’ , all those childhood hurts about being ‘ different ’ flooding back . |