Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made him look at me and see how pale I am . |
| 2 | I expected you to look at them . ’ |
| 3 | A dense fog descended on the field and I found myself isolated at left-half marking the right winger — yes , it was some years ago ! |
| 4 | I found myself gazing at the harmonium and my memories of the happy times I 'd spent listening to Miss Louise play came flooding back and I wept more . |
| 5 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 6 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 7 | I found myself looking at toupees the other day , horrible things , rat skins ! ’ |
| 8 | I found myself laughing at how easy it all seemed , and axe in hand went hurrying off to join him . |
| 9 | One horrible night I found myself crouched at the door , listening for sounds of pain which would have given me pleasure , sounds of pleasure that would have hurt . |
| 10 | I found myself staring at her , my mind devolving from the content of the short and impersonal crematorium service . |
| 11 | Later , much later , when I 'd refused at least seventeen attempts to ply me with drink , I found myself sitting at dinner , attempting to charm the ruling monarch 's fourth child . |
| 12 | I do have to say that on occasion I found myself baulking at a certain inconsistent and artificialsounding short reverberation effect following the odd sudden soloist ( trumpet or saxophone ) sforzando ( two specific cases are mentioned above ) , but this is a price I 'm more than willing to pay for the added ambience and clarity that Nippon Columbia has afforded these treasurable recordings . |
| 13 | No-one said much to me at tea , although I caught them looking at me sometimes as they sipped at their mugs . |
| 14 | my mum told me to wipe some of it , some of it off cos I could n't her shout , I , I , I caught her shouting at my sister , she got really angry with my sister |
| 15 | I caught myself shouting at people or giving them lectures about elementary things like the importance of oiling their bikes ( I later discovered that oiling bikes in dusty regions wears out the moving parts rather than preserving them ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I told ye to hit at it , I didna' tell ye to hit it , ’ he muttered . |
| 17 | But his voice was calm as he said , ‘ I told you to yell at me , but I did n't think you would . |
| 18 | ‘ I told you to stay at the house . ’ |
| 19 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 20 | When I replied he looked at me , then at my colleague , and addressing him , said , ‘ Oh well , at any rate he was born in Canada . ’ |
| 21 | I heard him shouting at it . |
| 22 | Once I heard him speak at a church service in Morton , and although he was an excellent speaker , there was a certain bitterness and disappointment in his words . |
| 23 | My friend was about 50 feet above me and almost out of sight in the fog , when I heard him yell at me to ‘ come and see this ’ . |
| 24 | I heard him say at one gathering that there were certain things he thought ought to be done , and he was going to do them , whether people followed him or not . |
| 25 | I heard him growling at the crowd . |
| 26 | I can still remember the humiliation I felt as I heard everyone laughing at me , and my brother laughing the loudest of all . |
| 27 | I heard you shouting at it . |
| 28 | " Oh , I heard you shouting at Mr. Matthew . " |
| 29 | I watched her sipping at the stuff , making faces . |
| 30 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |