Example sentences of "i [verb] at the [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I go to the supermarket , I usually stop off for a drink ; I sit at the bar and watch the real world go by . |
| 2 | Now I do n't care what people say : at times I look at the child and I am so happy I ca n't sleep at night . |
| 3 | I know what I see when I look at the grass and I have been told that the colour is called ‘ green ’ . |
| 4 | I arrived at the hospital and was shown to the labour room . |
| 5 | I frowned at the phone and waited for Eric to say something . |
| 6 | I turned at the door and said , ‘ Just write the truth , tuan Hans , that will be the message . ’ |
| 7 | Behold , I stand at the door and knock : if any man hear my voice , and open the door , I will come in to him Revelation 3 : 20 |
| 8 | All Church assemblies should perhaps have the motto , ‘ Behold I stand at the door and knock ’ inscribed above the door to remind them that the Church exists for outsiders not insiders . |
| 9 | ‘ One can not say to the Zanaki people along the shores of the sprawling Lake Victoria , ‘ Behold I stand at the door and knock ’ ( Rev. 3:20 ) . |
| 10 | Accordingly , in the Zanaki translation it is necessary to say , ‘ Behold , I stand at the door and call ’ ’ ( Nida 1952:46 ) . |
| 11 | I stand at the bottom and watch him . |
| 12 | A big grey house with a ‘ Guests ’ sign stood among trees , so I knocked at the door and asked how to find the holy well . |
| 13 | I knocked at the door and was told to enter . |
| 14 | I stare at the towel and I am frightened . |
| 15 | I pay at the counter and get my change . |
| 16 | I stared at the road and was not really surprised by the discovery that I recognized the man in a grey suit crossing with a police-sergeant . |
| 17 | I looked at the clock and it was 10.40 . |
| 18 | I looked at the wife and she died of fright . |
| 19 | ‘ I looked at the grandmother and she pointed at the baby . |
| 20 | and it just moved a bit and I went in again , I looked at the window and they moved again |
| 21 | I looked at the time and saw that it was a new world record , so I thought that I , too , must have run fast . |
| 22 | John of the Cross , the Spanish mystic , wrote ‘ I looked at the Cross and there I saw the song of love ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ When I got out I looked at the car and the lorry and I just could n't believe it . |
| 24 | I looked at the illustration and I thought no way is that ever going to do any thing that chops |
| 25 | ‘ In the very early days I looked at the market and decided one of the things I wanted to do was to build a big PR company because the market suffered from too many small companies . |
| 26 | Well , I looked at the shot and saw it . |
| 27 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 28 | Mr Clarke said last night : ‘ What I said after the meeting was exactly what I said at the meeting and exactly the same as I have been saying since the White Paper was published . |
| 29 | Back in my room , I sat at the desk and considered . |
| 30 | Because of Joe , however , I stayed at the forge and did my best to work hard . |