Example sentences of "[vb past] at my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of .
2 ‘ That 's nothing to worry about — you should have heard what happened at my first interview . ’
3 He was the largest Mbuna I had ever owned , a wild-caught fish measuring a good six inches and one of a ‘ pair ’ which arrived at my local shop from the first importation of the species into the UK .
4 I shouted goodbye and soon followed at my own pace , leaving the sacred hitching post of the sun in the custody of two girls , a man lying on his back in the grass , the gaseosa-selling woman and a tethered goat .
5 After presenting me with a bag of tomatoes , she glanced at my mangled leg and made the pronouncement .
6 Bowesfield headteacher George Aitken said said : ‘ This started at my last governors ’ meeting .
7 The corner of her mouth pressed against mine and in concert with her sharp hand , which clutched at my ample buttock , her sharper tongue slid ever so slightly between my lips .
8 I would n't let anyone see them , not even Cal — they 're part of me — I would n't show them around any more than I 'd lie flat on my back while they slit me open and stared at my pulsating innards .
9 Twenty-five years later in West Mercia , as a newly promoted superintendent , I listened at my first conference as my peers discussed a chief constable 's agreement which allowed officers to discard ties in hot weather and wear open-necked shirts .
10 And so I looked at my uneasy mistress with an anxious and angry eye which she was unable to meet .
11 I looked at my poor troopers .
12 The soldier looked at my swollen hand and then back at my face .
13 At the baker 's I offered to exchange my leather gloves for a small cake , but the baker 's wife looked at my dirty clothes and said , ‘ I 'm sorry , but how do I know you have n't stolen them ? ’
14 And as I looked at my little daughter , bright-eyed and ready to challenge the world , I could only pray that I would be ‘ good enough ’ in the new dance that was just beginning .
15 I looked at my lovely children and realised the suffering I had put them through .
16 Cath Carroll looked at my hole-filled jeans and nascent dreads and tittered .
17 Ellen smiled at my enthusiastic description .
18 Nevertheless , my excitement was aroused and , when Benjamin left the cardinal 's chamber , he glared at my flushed face suspiciously .
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