Example sentences of "and i [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Clark and I looked at the thing for five minutes and we said ‘ Wow ’ ’ , White told New Scientist . |
| 2 | Yet , directly I stepped out into the sunshine again , my superior self took over , and I looked at the matter differently . |
| 3 | Anyway , I come in ah , I went int kitchen , and I thought oh , there 's a loaf out of freezer , and I looked at the loaf but there 's only about four sandwiches in it . |
| 4 | ISAAC AND I STAY at the farm for two more days . |
| 5 | And I remember at the time , I was chasing you over a most ridiculous national press story that Emlyn did n't like the idea of you a pop singer appearing in one of his classics . |
| 6 | Mala and I stared at the enlarging disc that appeared on other screens after Posi revolved the ship to bring the lateral ceptors to bear . |
| 7 | There was a problem with gilt funds about three years ago , and T S B ran up against the problem of falling gilt yields and trying to maintain the , the flow to the investor , which they did , but th they failed to tell the investor that they were having to erm sell gilts and er trade under market value , so in fact you reduce the fund , but there are halfway stages , and I mean at the moment I can get round about eight percent , plus on , on erm er offshore funds . |
| 8 | I will say that Roy dealt with it , when it happened and I know at the time he , he was very very thorough over it . |
| 9 | ‘ Ca n't you give up this living ? ’ she asks , and I stare at the invisible ceiling . |
| 10 | And I stare at the handprints on the ceiling . |
| 11 | and I thought at the time it 's , it 's quite good enough just to have the idea and talk about the idea , make some drawings and |
| 12 | And I thought at the time , oh I 'd not done anything about it , |
| 13 | And I listen at the wall for sounds from Jancey , but it 's as quiet as a pillow , and she 's obviously gone to bed . |
| 14 | For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would |
| 15 | Rachel and I wait at the little barrier in the station terminus , and again I think what an ordinary pair of holidaymakers we must look — too tatty to be honeymooners , but the same kind of contentment together . |
| 16 | And I booked at the Claremont which is , twenty eight pounds . |
| 17 | If the Thamesdown one did n't , er , the officers for their own reasons have separated out this particular er , activity , erm , and I felt at the time that it was unreasonable to give a hundred percent funding to er , most C A B's but not to one . |
| 18 | And there he was , I went to look and I saw at the end there , a big pile of erm earth fresh earth you know . |
| 19 | Tenpin bowling has cheap membership and I believe at the end of the day , that people want to belong to clubs . |
| 20 | I saw him a few times more after that , in the months that followed , coming slowly up the lane from the station , as Millie and I stood at the gate . |
| 21 | And I gets this one out and I 'm reading through it and I looks at the name John , and then I began to take an interest in it and , here I discovered that my grandfather and my great grandfather that 's like my grandfather and my grandmother 's father |
| 22 | About 8 p.m. that evening Taff and I sat at the side of our slit trench eating what I thought was a rather dubious lump of meat . |
| 23 | The man and I prodded at the pile of crap on the table . |
| 24 | And I wondered at the beauty of what I saw . |
| 25 | D. A. I used to be on an adjoining beat in Cressington Park and I started at the park gates at one side of the road and there was a policeman on the other side of the road — you would n't cross the road to talk to him … you were n't allowed to talk to the public — that was gossiping , idling your time , failing to work your beat — three charges straight away and soon as the sergeant reported you . |
| 26 | And I started at the General Hospital er in on May the first nineteen twenty nine . |
| 27 | And I mentioned at the last meeting I think what has actually been said in the erm meeting I could repeat that , but I mean it confirms exactly what you 're saying . |
| 28 | I went on an induction course down in Bournemouth , which was all technical , er , I came back to see my first clients , and I cringed at the thought of it . |
| 29 | Stiff Little Fingers was my life when I was younger and I jumped at the idea of being able to do a few gigs without spending months away from home and having to worry about recording a new album as soon as we finished . |
| 30 | I signed him for Middlesbrough , and I jumped at the chance to sign him again here . |