Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I gazed up at the building .
2 As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky .
3 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 .
4 I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition .
5 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 .
6 My wife is a business woman with two shops and I came out at the height of the rag trade jamborees .
7 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 .
8 I look over at the changing room .
9 It 's as if he still lives there , so when I go past I look up at the window I 'd put him in .
10 I look back at the door .
11 I look down at the map of the estate .
12 I was still brimming with plangency , chockful of feeling , when I arrived back at the hotel .
13 When I arrived back at the cafe , I found Kathleen in a perplexed mood .
14 The guns along the banks of the Orne were still firing as I arrived back at the jeep .
15 I arrived back at the Palace Hotel and started to pack .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 ?
19 But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man .
20 I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine .
21 Sometimes in the Cauldhame Arms I stand up at the urinal , but most if it ends up running down my hands or legs .
22 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 .
23 I set out at the time the details of the areas where we would see new and better facilities reopening , and those better facilities have reopened .
24 The only person that I know about at the playhouse is Gordon .
25 I swung down at the bottom , deciding to go head first , face up , curling my back down into the soft river bed , praying …
26 I glanced up at the sky , ‘ It 's going to be light pretty soon . ’
27 As I eased down I glanced over at the clock ; it read 10.01 .
28 I glanced down at the kitchen .
29 I glanced down at the limb I was illustratively wiggling , only to find an involuntary erection making my trousers stick out like an accusing finger .
30 I glanced down at the lissom length of her spine .
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