Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I avoided looking at the thermometer . |
| 2 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 3 | I tried to look at the scenery . |
| 4 | I stopped to look at the shore . |
| 5 | ‘ We toured the Transport Museum , ’ said Peter , ‘ and Alexander Karaulov and I stopped to look at the autogyro on display . |
| 6 | But fascinated as I was by these aquatic birds , I longed to see the falcons and owls I 'd seen at the zoo flying free , and this is a rare occurrence . |
| 7 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 8 | I suddenly felt nauseous with anger and humiliation — none of the things I 'd felt at the time . |
| 9 | I 'd arrived at the Greenwood Theatre too late to hear Jonathan Ross get off his intro-line about Fashanu ‘ scoring ’ at the weekend . |
| 10 | He worked in Whitehall , that 's all I 'd known at the time . |
| 11 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 12 | ‘ I came to look at the gravestone . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The most extraordinary thing happened , ’ he explained , ‘ I was sitting here ( at his desk in Kensington palace ) , and I happened to look at the bookshelf , and my eyes settled on a book about Paracelsus . |
| 14 | Later , after I had qualified as a teacher and got married , I began to study at the university , teaching at a school during the day . |
| 15 | I heard rapping at the window beside my bed and another young woman whom I had n't met was standing on the window ledge of the hotel . |
| 16 | One night in bed I thought I heard knocking at the cottage door . |
| 17 | Well , when I was asked to speak to you today , I decided to look at the Oxford Dictionary 's definition of Community , which is joint ownership or liability . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Like that deep trog of a bank manager I went to see at the end of my first term at university . |
| 21 | She was right , of course ; but as I cycled the short distance home I kept worrying at the problem , juggling the pieces frustratingly in my mind , and making no sense at all . |
| 22 | The kitchen looked so clean and bright , and the ladies so kind and sensible , that I dared to knock at the door . |
| 23 | I did knock at the door , then , when there was no response , took a couple of steps through into a passage floored with stone slabs and containing nothing but some buckets of coal and a rack of ancient clothes , gardening clobber by the look of it . |
| 24 | Erm I did say at the time if the Council agreed it was we would approve the new application it would only be if the original was rescinded and I did speak to the Town Clerk so there 's no need , I 'm not making a big issue , but I think the Council should be aware and the Town Clerk I believe has notified because again this is one of those things that could happen at a later date and as we all know if we have n't made these things perfectly clear . |
| 25 | I felt fine — refreshed almost — my leg a little sore but not enough to impede me , although I did wonder at the wisdom of the ‘ cute red heels and hose ’ as I wriggled my feet into the 4-inch-high stilettos . |
| 26 | I did look at the plans , and a book on sled dog training , and promptly forgot the whole thing until reminded two or three weeks before the promised delivery date . |
| 27 | I did look at the stripogram group because I was so horrified at the thought that they might do it again . |
| 28 | One question I did ask at the Fire and Public Protection Committees what happens when you do n't , when we bring in a unity authority status . |
| 29 | ‘ They put elderflowers in it , ’ I said looking at the label . |
| 30 | I did n't think so , I said er , I said suppose at the end of your wages . |