Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb base] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim .
2 For as much as I reject the demo mentality , I also despair at the apolitical bipartisanship of our national mainstream parties .
3 I was raised in Britain where I took my A-levels and went to university , but I now teach at an American college .
4 One is that I often stay at a first-class hotel to merge into the background .
5 As the father of young children myself , I often wonder at the adult-oriented visual images , themes and preoccupations which seem to dominate so much of our children 's publishing , and the failure to recognise that today 's generations of youngsters have grown up conditioned by the immediate access and instant gratification provided by the likes of television and computer games .
6 I sometimes wonder at the sheer multiplicity of the oyster Gryphaea arcuata there must have been on the earliest Jurassic sea-floors over what is now Europe , and the millions upon millions of creatures ( whatever they were ) that chewed their way through mid Jurassic mud to produce the trace-fossil Zoophycos .
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