Example sentences of "i [verb] at [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I grin at myself in the mirror .
2 I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands .
3 I gazed at her with admiration .
4 I gazed at her for a long time , slowly enraptured .
5 Crossing again to the fireplace , I gazed at it with awe , and had I been of a religious bent I would have fallen on my knees and prayed that the water would meet Nigel 's requirements so that on winter evenings , when we were doing our Darby and Joan bit , we could sit and worship the spirit of the fire , the hearth , the very essence of our home .
6 Sometimes I bat at him from under the sheet , a cross between a pat and a push .
7 He used to niggle at me for being a capitalist farmer and I got at him for being an unemployed commie .
8 I shouted at it in English but it kept on .
9 After I shouted at you for not being there for Mrs Richards ? ’
10 When I peered at myself in the mirror I screamed .
11 I peered at them round the end of the house .
12 Mr Rogich says , unhelpfully : ‘ I look at everything from the historical point of view because I think that gives greater impact to the message . ’
13 But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’
14 I look at him with about the dirtiest look I can muster .
15 These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine .
16 I look at her in surprise and she shrugs gracelessly , as if she were refusing to take responsibility for her indolence rather than her zeal .
17 I get all dolled up for a party and then I look at myself in the mirror and suddenly chicken out , put my jeans on , ruffle up my hair , and only then do I feel comfortable . ’
18 A few days later , I look at myself in the mirror .
19 ‘ Yet the last thing on my mind is business when I look at you in that witchy little dress ! ’
20 I look at it for a moment , tracing out my journey from Westminster .
21 Well maybe it 's because I look at it as a school like that 's
22 It 's good , but I look at it like … did you see the movie ‘ Road Warrior ’ ? '
23 I bark at anything in sight .
24 I stare at it in hatred .
25 I breakfasted at anything between eight-thirty and nine .
26 I smile at myself in the mirror .
27 I talked at him as if he could easily be normal .
28 I stared at him in horror .
29 I stared at him in great surprise .
30 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 .
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