Example sentences of "i [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professor 's secretary , who is wearing fluffy aquamarine slippers , asks me to wait at the end of a blank corridor . |
| 2 | Much of the writing about television fiction seems to me to remain at the level of elementary genres , grounded in the dominance of the semantic aspect , with relatively little analytic or historical attention to the ‘ verbal ’ ( style , mise-en-scene ) or the ‘ syntactic ’ ( narrative structure ) : there is very little close textual analysis of television fiction , and there is no scholarly history of the development of television form to compare with the histories which have emerged of early cinema . |
| 3 | Yes there were criticism but it 's not appropriate for me to comment at the moment . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats . |
| 5 | He likes me to smile at the camera , so twice I pulled shocking faces . |
| 6 | ‘ And now it 's a wonderful feeling to know that it has enabled me to look at the top guys knowing there are only a few ahead of me . |
| 7 | Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Walked on the race course before breakfast the air balmy and very delightful , great numbers of the blue mountain parrots were making their morning meal on a large kind of the Eucalypti — two of the beautiful Nankeen night herons passed over our heads and we heard the curious note of the coul [ cowl ] bird or bald-headed friar — returned with an excellent appetite — drew all day — in the evening John called me to look at the skin of a snake more than six feet long which James shot in the act of ascending a tree — also brought me some beautiful specimens of a climbing plant bearing thick clusters of cream colour blossoms . ’ |
| 9 | He wanted me to look at the provision by the business of work experience for secondary school students during the compulsory stage of their education . |
| 10 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 11 | My father taught me to read at a very early age . |
| 12 | So do you want me to call at the 's now ? |
| 13 | Their comments have been so interesting and helpful in enabling me to arrive at a diet plan perfected for absolute maximum effect . |
| 14 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 15 | ‘ As I was blind , it was arranged for me to stay at the organiser 's house . |
| 16 | Victoria , remind me to stop at the Freitases ’ house as we go through the village . ’ |
| 17 | Whereas in the 6th edition the re-written §246 dismisses the above as ‘ all my experience permitted me to say at the time … and that his research of the previous five years had wholly solved the difficulties of repetition . |
| 18 | He is too useful for me to discard at the present time . |