Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 2 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 3 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 4 | Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef . |
| 5 | He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match . |
| 6 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 7 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 8 | From floor 110 , the highest point on the island , I gazed back at the midtown outbreak of skyscrapers , the Chrysler and the Empire State in their midst . |
| 9 | Until I moved in to the Rectory at Seend , I lived briefly at the Bell Inn , St Edith 's Marsh , Bromham , near Devizes . |
| 10 | The kite had a tail of twisted magazine-pages — Guns and Ammo , which I got regularly at the time . |
| 11 | I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition . |
| 12 | Despite its limitations and difficulties , dowsing was one of the sources of inspiration for the Dragon Project , which I mentioned briefly at the beginning of the last chapter . |
| 13 | Yes , I stopped off at the |
| 14 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |
| 15 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 16 | I woke up at the part where he was telling me it had been a mindless fling , and I should n't get upset over it . |
| 17 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
| 18 | I came here at the instigation of your letter , believing myself to have secured a position . |
| 19 | My wife is a business woman with two shops and I came out at the height of the rag trade jamborees . |
| 20 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |
| 21 | Having recently had a pacemaker installed I have nothing but praise for the treatment I received both at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton and the Freeman in Newcastle ( a Trust hospital ) . |
| 22 | I arrived back at the Palace Hotel and started to pack . |
| 23 | When I arrived back at the cafe , I found Kathleen in a perplexed mood . |
| 24 | The guns along the banks of the Orne were still firing as I arrived back at the jeep . |
| 25 | When I arrived back at the Land Rover I met Abdulla , the student teacher , who had been attracted by the breakdown . |
| 26 | I was still brimming with plangency , chockful of feeling , when I arrived back at the hotel . |
| 27 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 28 | When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ? |
| 29 | I turned up at the Comedy Store here in London one night , petrified , because in those days it was a pretty testing place with a drunk , unruly audience . |
| 30 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |