Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] at [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | around the m around the Mansfield =field , and these Children , at School they know far more than I do at my age I think . |
| 2 | That seemed all right , but over dinner Alison began to act oddly — as if she was enjoying herself — so I scowled at her and asked her what the problem was . |
| 3 | There 's still some old leaves that ai n't been brushed up yet , so I kick at them as I go along . |
| 4 | My eyes go funny after a bit , so I look at summat else . |
| 5 | If I looked at them all night long , I should n't grow tired of the sight . ’ |
| 6 | However , I realized if I looked at it underwater , it was bigger . |
| 7 | Jim did say if I looked at mine , and I only have just looked at it er if I 've read the fig if I 've read the figures right and I |
| 8 | She nearly always does go to bed with me , if I shout at her a lot or threaten her or give her enough money . |
| 9 | If I jump with surprise when a dog suddenly barks at me , my behaviour is no less expressive than if I shout at it to shut up . |
| 10 | After a couple of hours of observing in these conditions , shapes and objects in front of me appeared to move , if I stared at them for too long . |
| 11 | ‘ If I look at my last two years in football it 's been virtually to the last kick of the game in the last two seasons , so it will be the same again . |
| 12 | ‘ If I smile at him , it 's because it means nothing to me . |
| 13 | If I sleep at his house , he sleeps there . |
| 14 | wire mesh , cos I laughed at him he pulled it away and hit his head |
| 15 | I keep saying we looked at cos I looked at it on Sunday and |
| 16 | Cos I looked at I ca n't see it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Now I may not remember always the make first glance off unless I look at it . |
| 19 | ‘ Because I shouted at them . |
| 20 | Well maybe it 's because I look at it as a school like that 's |
| 21 | It was because I sat at his feet with my blouse undone . ’ |
| 22 | Wait till I get at thee ! |
| 23 | Once he put an incredibly hard , cold lump of what was obviously meat in my bowl and then stood there and watched while I sniffed at it . |
| 24 | Then , while I looked at his face , something strange happened . |
| 25 | The English pigeon devouring the remains of the couscous , without a pause , immersing its whole beak and head in the grains while I smiled at it , saying : ‘ You seem to like couscous from a packet . |
| 26 | My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable . |
| 27 | After I shouted at you for not being there for Mrs Richards ? ’ |
| 28 | In future when I land at anything other than properly documented airfields I will ask the question : Are there any other runways or strips that look like runways in the vicinity that could be mistaken for the active runway ? |
| 29 | The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby . |
| 30 | There were two Frenchmen in the corner with shifty eyes and scarred faces who looked away when I stared at them , and a friendly Scandinavian with a tan and fine blond hair who shook my hand and said , ‘ France fucking shit , yes ? ’ |