Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’ |
| 2 | He said , said you were just standing there and all of a sudden he said you looked at me looked back at the wall just went pee he said it 's all come out , it 's all splattered all over the wall he said , you did your fly up , wiped your mouth , washed your hands and went out again as if nothing had happened . |
| 3 | Pa has given special permission for the godparents and me to stand inside at the Jonah window , while he does the immersion outside . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 5 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 6 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 7 | Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef . |
| 8 | He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I mean even at the risk of probably er the other suppliers making a bit more than us if it means that . |
| 11 | Er but I mean basically at the end of the day , I mean you have to think about to what extent you can increase your sales . |
| 12 | Until I moved in to the Rectory at Seend , I lived briefly at the Bell Inn , St Edith 's Marsh , Bromham , near Devizes . |
| 13 | The kite had a tail of twisted magazine-pages — Guns and Ammo , which I got regularly at the time . |
| 14 | I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
| 19 | I came here at the instigation of your letter , believing myself to have secured a position . |
| 20 | My wife is a business woman with two shops and I came out at the height of the rag trade jamborees . |
| 21 | I groan inwardly at the prospect of a night playing Happy Families with a bunch of desk-jockeys and number-crunchers . |
| 22 | Having recently had a pacemaker installed I have nothing but praise for the treatment I received both at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton and the Freeman in Newcastle ( a Trust hospital ) . |
| 23 | I look around at the milling people , imagining we 'll be split up into smaller groups and led through the blank doors to sit in armchairs and watch a TV set on some kind of plinth . |
| 24 | I look over at the posters on the wall . |
| 25 | I look over at the changing room . |
| 26 | It 's as if he still lives there , so when I go past I look up at the window I 'd put him in . |
| 27 | I look up at the windows . |
| 28 | I look back at the door . |
| 29 | He was a ‘ chest case ’ for years and when I look back at the photographs of him he 's always trying to look normal but actually his face is pained from trying to breathe . |
| 30 | When I look back at the photographs I think And even when it was long I had , there was one hairdresser there called Paul , whom I 'd go and see regularly . |