Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I tried to look at the scenery . |
| 3 | I stopped to look at the shore . |
| 4 | ‘ We toured the Transport Museum , ’ said Peter , ‘ and Alexander Karaulov and I stopped to look at the autogyro on display . |
| 5 | ‘ I came to look at the gravestone . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Like that deep trog of a bank manager I went to see at the end of my first term at university . |
| 11 | The kitchen looked so clean and bright , and the ladies so kind and sensible , that I dared to knock at the door . |
| 12 | I had to tell at the table . |
| 13 | On reading the Echo report I had to look at the top of the page to make certain that the date was June 1st and not April 1st . |
| 14 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
| 15 | It was n't that the song had a particular relevance — it was n't about AIDS — but it was a song that I felt was the best way of expressing myself and also the best thing I had to offer at the time . |
| 16 | I intended to resign at the A.G.M. due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area before the next A.G.M. but since no-one else wanted the job I agreed to remain chairman for as long as I could . |
| 17 | I wanted to start at the beginning . |
| 18 | In a Panorama documentary on Monday night , Tim 's father Colin will say : ‘ I wanted to look at the man , to hear his voice and to ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 19 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 20 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 21 | I wanted to stay at the party , have a good time , be with my friends , dance with Ryan … ’ |
| 22 | She bent to tug at the covering , found it securely fastened . |
| 23 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 24 | The bitch was wary of her advances and , though she condescended to pick at the food Robbie put down for her , she refused to leave the small cabin even to accompany the Labrador for an evening walk . |
| 25 | She turned to gaze at the man who 'd approached silently and stood a little behind her on her left . |
| 26 | Then she turned to look at the Frenchman and spoke softly in his language . |
| 27 | She turned to look at the registrar as he strode smiling into the room , and her bemused expression must have registered . |
| 28 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 29 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 30 | However , she still had not been fed and so she started to paw at the fence again . |