Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | As for myself , I arrived at the first weekend in a state of high evangelism that must have bored everyone I met . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | I found fifteen waiting for me when I arrived at the Awash Station , all thoroughly unhappy at the prospect ahead . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch . |
| 37 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
| 38 | I weep at the impending demise of my oldest and supportive friend ! |
| 39 | I glance at the front door : no one showing yet . |
| 40 | I glance at the wrought-iron gate : it 's a long way off . |
| 41 | Ten minutes ago I knocked at the front door , waited in the street . |
| 42 | I felt guilty — I seem to do that a lot , like when I could n't be with my parents when my father was dying , even when I know at an intellectual level that I do n't need to . |
| 43 | ( 1966 : 72 ) recognized such unobtrusive measures have found favour in field-work and I discovered at an early stage that the problem remains one of revealing the structural warts of the system while somehow indicating that this need not be seditious ; and indeed might even be of some value . |
| 44 | ‘ Ca n't you give up this living ? ’ she asks , and I stare at the invisible ceiling . |
| 45 | Over a hasty meal , I glanced at the Official Guide to County Meath , a gift from the manager . |
| 46 | I glanced at the answering machine in the corner and saw that the red light was glowing . |
| 47 | Once more I glanced at the large flour mill , temporarily closed , despite the addition of a new silvery turbine engine to take the place of water power . |
| 48 | But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression . |
| 49 | He said I waved at the poor man like a loony . |
| 50 | A substantial amount of information which is necessary and which indeed was asked for by members of your I believe at a previous oral question time erm as to the number that were printed you may be shocked to know that one hundred copies were made which means that the total cost of this , I think you will agree , very worthwhile public information , was four hundred and sixty one pounds and twenty one pence . |
| 51 | I snarled at the inner voice . |
| 52 | , I was seventeen , I worked at the Flying Horse . |
| 53 | Driving away , I noticed that the vast chimney was still not functioning , but when I called at a neighbouring house a woman showed me videos she had taken of smoke coming from the plant , settling in her garden . |
| 54 | I started at a new school after Easter and this may have something to do with it because it was n't as bad before . |
| 55 | I started at the early age of five , and I was taught until I was ten , and all day at that . |
| 56 | And I started at the General Hospital er in on May the first nineteen twenty nine . |
| 57 | But the thrill I felt at the strange beauty was swept away as I got out and the wind struck me . |
| 58 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 59 | ‘ My car 's been stolen , ’ I screamed at the same traffic warden . |
| 60 | The only thing I could do I mean at the same time I 'm saying O K I 'll go in to do it this way , would be to actually say , sod this for a lark , instead of doing erm totally private thing , gon na set up a private limited company to issue cheques . |