Example sentences of "i [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water , in which no creature could prosper , and the dockside crowds of welcome floating and swimming above like tropical fish .
2 I pawed at the hairy form .
3 I shouted at the unfortunate Harry .
4 Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls .
5 I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger .
6 I trained at the Royal and I 'll be able to get you a bed immediately . ’
7 I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 .
8 I lapped at the warm , rich blood ; very nice , very fresh .
9 On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play .
10 We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity .
11 One Christmas Eve I woke at the critical moment , and saw , not Santa Claus , but three familiar figures indulging in heavy horse play at the foot of the bed .
12 That handjob I scored at the Happy Isles-I tell you , She-She was giving it away .
13 The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor .
14 I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes .
15 I found fifteen waiting for me when I arrived at the Awash Station , all thoroughly unhappy at the prospect ahead .
16 As I arrived at the recent show of Eileen Cooper 's drawings at the Benjamin Rhodes Gallery after visiting the controversial ( read media-hype ) show , Strange Developments , at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery , I could not help but find great comfort in the sheer generosity of spirit with which these big drawings greet you .
17 When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch .
18 Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’
19 I taught at a private primary school for girls and really , compared with what some teachers go through , I had a terribly easy time , but I still could n't cope .
20 Ten minutes ago I knocked at the front door , waited in the street .
21 ( 1966 : 72 ) recognized such unobtrusive measures have found favour in field-work and I discovered at an early stage that the problem remains one of revealing the structural warts of the system while somehow indicating that this need not be seditious ; and indeed might even be of some value .
22 Over a hasty meal , I glanced at the Official Guide to County Meath , a gift from the manager .
23 I glanced at the answering machine in the corner and saw that the red light was glowing .
24 Once more I glanced at the large flour mill , temporarily closed , despite the addition of a new silvery turbine engine to take the place of water power .
25 We need the money , and from all I heard at the Gaudy , Somerville still deserves it .
26 He said I waved at the poor man like a loony .
27 I snarled at the inner voice .
28 When I worked at the General , doctor 's who shall be name less used
29 , I was seventeen , I worked at the Flying Horse .
30 Driving away , I noticed that the vast chimney was still not functioning , but when I called at a neighbouring house a woman showed me videos she had taken of smoke coming from the plant , settling in her garden .
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