Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 2 | Erm now what I want to say at the very very end is a quick observation by Beatrix Campbell who wrote a book about the Cleveland er child sex abuse scandal which took place in the late 1980's . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well they had to get their own machines out an there 's one old boy had a stitcher , a be he looked ninety , he probably was n't , and er he was chu , it was just after lunch and he was chewing apple and old Jo , I was working with so you know , Jim someone 's I said look at the silly old B , I said ! |
| 5 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 6 | I turned to look at the young man beside me , his long fingered hands resting on the steering wheel . |
| 7 | ‘ I turned to look at the retreating figures of my two friends , feeling unbearably isolated , and went to eat alone in the cafeteria . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Whichever way I try to come at the Unknown Substance it remains just beyond my grasp . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 13 | I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I had started at the Royal College of Music , and the atmosphere there was at first hostile to volunteering . |
| 16 | I had to park at The Three Pigeons I could n't get in ! |
| 17 | Happy May Day , and I 'm so sorry about the muddle with the draft I 've enquired at the head office of the Bank of Scotland , where I got it made out , and they seemed to think your Brno bank was being a bit dim , or perhaps even obstructionist , in telling you they could n't deal with it and that you 'd have to go to Prague to get it cashed . |
| 18 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 19 | ‘ Besides , as Mona will tell you , I 've reformed at the very idea of being put in clink for treason or whatever they call it . |
| 20 | I need to look at the real thing . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You did n't think I intended to stay at the Crowned Head , did you ? ’ |
| 23 | If I wanted to point at the put directory . |
| 24 | ‘ No , I 've been to the office , and I wanted to look at the projected sales figures for this quarter . |
| 25 | To put it more simply , I wanted to look at the reciprocal interaction between individuals and their immediate social world . |
| 26 | ‘ Are you listening to me ? ’ he demanded when she failed to laugh at the right point . |
| 27 | but you hate to think at the same time what happened how they were burning you hate to think of |
| 28 | On Monday morning , she reported to work at the Swift building on Des Voeux Road . |
| 29 | Do you know I ca n't remember the date , early part of March , early part of March , erm what she says at the moment is that er someone else from the college is going to Leicester next Wednesday when Helen 's going to Cardiff and this girl is then going to Cardiff when Helen should be going to Leicester , so Helen says , and she wants to look at the same subjects as what Helen does so Helen says that they 're gon na sort of go to the different colleges and compare notes when they come back from it so she might need n't want to go to Leicester |
| 30 | She wants to play at the highest standard . |