Example sentences of "i [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a wall corner I stopped to look back at Thwaite 's collection of stone houses shimmering in the dale . |
| 2 | I learnt to sit formally at table and to eat three inedible courses of stodge with an incomprehensible array of surplus cutlery ; to whisper when I spoke as I was considered ‘ too loud ’ ; and to stop gesturing with my hands or to touch in conversation , as people inevitably shrank away from me . |
| 3 | When I turned to look back at him after a short canter , he was winded and scared with barely enough strength to stay on his horse . |
| 4 | I turned to look back at the softly gleaming , parallel surfaces converging towards an oblong of dimly lit structures , an oblong much taller and narrower than any doorway . |
| 5 | After a long day sitting in the coach , I decided to get out at Millcote , leave my luggage at the hotel , and walk across the fields to Thornfield . |
| 6 | He went away and I started to look down at my hands again . |
| 7 | I managed to glare back at the boy , who went on chewing . |
| 8 | Thus it started popping up everywhere — even in Hobart , Tasmania , last Thursday night , when I went to speak there at a rugby dinner . |
| 9 | As happens in any new venture , I discovered that the hours I had to put in at the beginning seemed to outnumber those available in any day . |
| 10 | But she made no move to leave , so I had to say not at all , I 'd gone to bed because it seemed the warmest place . |
| 11 | and er with my son particularly earlier on in his career things were going round and round in circles and in the end I had to step in at one point , grab all the papers as they came past as they were and saying , come on . |
| 12 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 13 | Plus , while I had to get up at eight for Whiteleys . |
| 14 | Although I was helping out Miss Louise I had to get up at six o'clock in the morning to do all the chores before school . |
| 15 | I had to get up at quarter to seven this morning . |
| 16 | I used to try and not say er , you know , to make her feel uncomfortable and that sort of thing , but I did use to draw the line when they used to be eleven and half past eleven saying goodnight and I had to get up at half past , six o'clock , seven o'clock |
| 17 | I wanted to lash out at them : Vern did n't help me , I do n't need anyone to help me — he took me to this boat alone at night and we … |
| 18 | When I saw her crying , with her neck all swollen , I wanted to lash out at the doctor who 'd done this to her . |