Example sentences of "i [vb past] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 2 | That handjob I scored at the Happy Isles-I tell you , She-She was giving it away . |
| 3 | I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |
| 4 | I felt at the torn threads in my blouse and looked at the grazed skin underneath and shuddered , but I was all right and so was the tree . |
| 5 | I looked at the two men . |
| 6 | So I looked at the two men again . |
| 7 | I looked at the other windows in the house . |
| 8 | When I looked at the broken bundles scattered across the floor , I recognized the faces . |
| 9 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 10 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 11 | Telling my story , I looked at the green fields of wheat moving in the wind . |
| 12 | I looked at the double doors in horror and wondered if perchance Toplis might be hiding inside . |
| 13 | The old woman came and silently cleared away , without once looking at me , even when I pointed at the few cakes left and praised them in my stilted Greek ; the hermit master evidently liked silent servants . |