Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
2 | I gazed up at the building . |
3 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
4 | Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef . |
5 | He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match . |
6 | From floor 110 , the highest point on the island , I gazed back at the midtown outbreak of skyscrapers , the Chrysler and the Empire State in their midst . |
7 | The kite had a tail of twisted magazine-pages — Guns and Ammo , which I got regularly at the time . |
8 | I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition . |
9 | Despite its limitations and difficulties , dowsing was one of the sources of inspiration for the Dragon Project , which I mentioned briefly at the beginning of the last chapter . |
10 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |
11 | I woke up at the part where he was telling me it had been a mindless fling , and I should n't get upset over it . |
12 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
13 | I came here at the instigation of your letter , believing myself to have secured a position . |
14 | My wife is a business woman with two shops and I came out at the height of the rag trade jamborees . |
15 | I was still brimming with plangency , chockful of feeling , when I arrived back at the hotel . |
16 | When I arrived back at the cafe , I found Kathleen in a perplexed mood . |
17 | The guns along the banks of the Orne were still firing as I arrived back at the jeep . |
18 | I arrived back at the Palace Hotel and started to pack . |
19 | Not long after that blow to the ego , I turned up at a studio to do a commercial . |
20 | I turned up at the Comedy Store here in London one night , petrified , because in those days it was a pretty testing place with a drunk , unruly audience . |
21 | When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ? |
22 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
23 | ‘ I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine . |
24 | Still , I did n't risk a second run and instead I turned left at the end and found myself back on Plumstead Road . |
25 | No , I just came over fields , I went along and followed a dyke , I turned left at the cafe , and then followed the first I saw going up . |
26 | And erm , the other aspect , the last aspect that gave us er anxiety was something I touched on this morning when I joined in at the end of the Selby discussion . |
27 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
28 | I swung down at the bottom , deciding to go head first , face up , curling my back down into the soft river bed , praying … |
29 | I glanced up at the sky , ‘ It 's going to be light pretty soon . ’ |
30 | As I eased down I glanced over at the clock ; it read 10.01 . |