Example sentences of "i [vb past] [v-ing] at [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | One night in bed I thought I heard knocking at the cottage door . |
| 5 | I started lecturing at a college of higher education in 1978 but returned to research and soft money in 1980 as soon as my husband had left . |
| 6 | I went looking at a house the other day and it backed on to a lake . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ They put elderflowers in it , ’ I said looking at the label . |
| 10 | ‘ Life has changed , Shama , ’ I said looking at the Japanese thermos on the chair by my bed and the round box of Danish biscuits which I had been given ‘ in case you are hungry in the night ’ . |
| 11 | I sat staring at the empty screen for a long time , oblivious of everything around me , including Frejji 's cursing as she struggled with interfield links . |
| 12 | I stood looking at the pools of water lying on the pitch , the door of the directors ' Portakabin swinging back and forth on its one remaining hinge , and I recalled the good times , remembered the bad . |
| 13 | I stood thinking at the door . |
| 14 | Fifteen minutes later , or it may have been twenty , I stood staring at a caged lift : the chest-flexing iron lattice , the accordion doors . |
| 15 | I stood staring at the jeep as it bumped and swayed over the uneven ground of the orchard until it reached the road and then disappeared in a cloud of dust . |