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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	When I eventually arrived at the hospital I was feeling in the best of spirits and apparently shook the sisters by asking them to bring on the dancing girls . ’
2	I just stared at the wall .
3	When I 'd finished , I did n't look at Mum and Dad , I just stared at the carpet .
4	Then she asked what had happened to Alec , because nobody had told her , and I just looked at a spot about a foot above her head and let Frank do the dirty work .
5	I just looked at the man , I thought , I oh god I ca n't cope with this !
6	No I just looked at the clock that was all it was
7	There 's a serious , a serious side Lord Mayor , to that greeting cos I just looked at the number of companies that are owned this shareholders scheme that they like to promote , the number of companies that 're owned by foreign nationals .
8	Right so I just stopped at the paracetamol , and I says , Och , I 'd better not go back up .
9	When I finally moved at the end of September , it was an enormous step in my life .
10	I do n't know why but I see that more clearly now than I ever did at the time .
11	I also pressed at the city board for something to be done about this problem of the er people disappearing off the poll tax register at an alarming rate I must add .
12	Sir Henry and I both looked at the picture .
13	Maté and I now stood at the junction of the cathedral 's great T. The vertical limb of this overpowering architectural masterpiece sloped downwards .
14	The flat in West Kensington was really only three large , formerly elegant rooms , with ceilings so high that I often gaped at the room 's proportions , as if I were in a derelict cathedral .
15	I invariably sat at the back of the class for reasons not unconnected with gang warfare , and if I needed to glance at the blackboard there was always someone to show me roughly where it was .
16	I invariably sat at the back of the class for reasons not unconnected with gang warfare , and if I needed to glance at the blackboard there was always someone to show me roughly where it was .
17	I then looked at the section of the report headed ’ Economic Impact ’ where there was nothing at all about the damage to the coal industry .
18	‘ I never noticed at the time .
19	I was so thankful she was well that I too laughed at the repartee .
20	Sir : I would like to relate to you an experience I recently had at a computer dealership on Oxford Road , Manchester , which I think may , in part , explain the ever downward spiralling morass computer retailing finds itself in .
21	When Nan rushed in , pulling her hat and coat off as she came in , she laughingly looked at the clock and said , ‘ Made it all but a minute , miss .
22	How comes you only stayed at the Curry House ?
23	And then , when she only stared at the car without responding , he added , ‘ I said it was a matter of timing .
24	But if you just looked at the work he 's been churning out lately , without knowing anything about his business activities , you 'd wonder what had happened to him .
25	The chances are that , if you were all given a lot of time to write each essay without your notes and you just sat at a desk and had about three hours on each question , you 'd all do very well .
26	That 's part of the trouble , part of why he is so lonely , but she just looked at the carpet in silence , at the dark place where Luke had once spilled black coffee .
27	She always looked at every farthing twice before parting with it .
28	She hardly glanced at the plate and did n't ask about the spinach .
29	It was like the pain from an old wound , so familiar that she never noticed it until she deliberately picked at the scar .
30	She never tired of seeing a sunset or a flock of geese , and even in her nineties she still marvelled at the beauty of the sea or the quality of light in Dumfriesshire .