Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 2 | I avoided looking at the thermometer . |
| 3 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 4 | I tried to look at the scenery . |
| 5 | ‘ We toured the Transport Museum , ’ said Peter , ‘ and Alexander Karaulov and I stopped to look at the autogyro on display . |
| 6 | I stopped to look at the shore . |
| 7 | But fascinated as I was by these aquatic birds , I longed to see the falcons and owls I 'd seen at the zoo flying free , and this is a rare occurrence . |
| 8 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 9 | I suddenly felt nauseous with anger and humiliation — none of the things I 'd felt at the time . |
| 10 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 11 | Er is I 'd looked at the using their machine build which I 've built in , |
| 12 | I 'd arrived at the Greenwood Theatre too late to hear Jonathan Ross get off his intro-line about Fashanu ‘ scoring ’ at the weekend . |
| 13 | He worked in Whitehall , that 's all I 'd known at the time . |
| 14 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 15 | ‘ I came to look at the gravestone . ’ |
| 16 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 17 | ‘ The most extraordinary thing happened , ’ he explained , ‘ I was sitting here ( at his desk in Kensington palace ) , and I happened to look at the bookshelf , and my eyes settled on a book about Paracelsus . |
| 18 | I turned to look at the young man beside me , his long fingered hands resting on the steering wheel . |
| 19 | ‘ I turned to look at the retreating figures of my two friends , feeling unbearably isolated , and went to eat alone in the cafeteria . ’ |
| 20 | Later , after I had qualified as a teacher and got married , I began to study at the university , teaching at a school during the day . |
| 21 | I heard rapping at the window beside my bed and another young woman whom I had n't met was standing on the window ledge of the hotel . |
| 22 | One night in bed I thought I heard knocking at the cottage door . |
| 23 | I decided to look at the local statistics for asthma deaths in West Cumbria from the public health department for the years 1980 to 1989 . |
| 24 | Well , when I was asked to speak to you today , I decided to look at the Oxford Dictionary 's definition of Community , which is joint ownership or liability . |
| 25 | He stopped , and there was a pause , and then someone started to clap at the back of the studio , and George , who had been sitting with his chin on his chest , impassively listening , looked up . |
| 26 | I invariably sat at the back of the class for reasons not unconnected with gang warfare , and if I needed to glance at the blackboard there was always someone to show me roughly where it was . |
| 27 | I invariably sat at the back of the class for reasons not unconnected with gang warfare , and if I needed to glance at the blackboard there was always someone to show me roughly where it was . |
| 28 | Like that deep trog of a bank manager I went to see at the end of my first term at university . |
| 29 | As I made my way home and tried to comprehend the logic of taking another batsman on board , I kept arriving at the same conclusion — that I 'd be better off out of it . |
| 30 | She was right , of course ; but as I cycled the short distance home I kept worrying at the problem , juggling the pieces frustratingly in my mind , and making no sense at all . |