Example sentences of "i [verb] [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 | I mean even at the risk of probably er the other suppliers making a bit more than us if it means that . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 10 | The kite had a tail of twisted magazine-pages — Guns and Ammo , which I got regularly at the time . |
| 11 | I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
| 16 | I came here at the instigation of your letter , believing myself to have secured a position . |
| 17 | My wife is a business woman with two shops and I came out at the height of the rag trade jamborees . |
| 18 | I groan inwardly at the prospect of a night playing Happy Families with a bunch of desk-jockeys and number-crunchers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I look over at the changing room . |
| 21 | It 's as if he still lives there , so when I go past I look up at the window I 'd put him in . |
| 22 | But on the other hand , the bibliography for the Tate catalogue required that I look back at a lot of old notices and I find that my perception was not at all valid . |
| 23 | I look back at the door . |
| 24 | I look down at the map of the estate . |
| 25 | I was still brimming with plangency , chockful of feeling , when I arrived back at the hotel . |
| 26 | When I arrived back at the cafe , I found Kathleen in a perplexed mood . |
| 27 | The guns along the banks of the Orne were still firing as I arrived back at the jeep . |
| 28 | I arrived back at the Palace Hotel and started to pack . |
| 29 | I glance in at the ASI — still reading 150 — then throw my heavy helmeted head back to see the white skyline creeping forward along the canopy . |
| 30 | Not long after that blow to the ego , I turned up at a studio to do a commercial . |