Example sentences of "i [vb past] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bradshaw was the only man I met to laugh at twenty-foot waves . |
| 2 | When I married my wife Mary , however , I planned to stay at home for a while . |
| 3 | The first opportunity I got to look at this stuff is on Sunday on the library |
| 4 | I tried to explain at that press conference and the only one who understood was Bridges , the only one . |
| 5 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 6 | I only remembered it when I leaned forward or when I tried to sleep at night . |
| 7 | I tried to lunge at them with my talons but crows are clever , crows can judge distance to the fraction of a talon . |
| 8 | I tried to look at the scenery . |
| 9 | I tried to smile at him through my tears , but I realized it had n't turned out very well , so I squeezed his hand which I was holding . |
| 10 | I tried to laugh at myself , but I did not succeed . |
| 11 | I promised to stay at Morton school until Christmas , when St John would be able to find another teacher . |
| 12 | I stopped to look at them , and thought for a moment they looked like prison doors , hiding evil secrets . |
| 13 | ‘ We toured the Transport Museum , ’ said Peter , ‘ and Alexander Karaulov and I stopped to look at the autogyro on display . |
| 14 | I stopped to look at the shore . |
| 15 | In time I learnt to tell at a glance , from the decorations he wore , how often a man had killed , just as I might tell from his campaign medals where a British soldier had served . |
| 16 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 17 | ‘ I came to look at the gravestone . ’ |
| 18 | After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment . |
| 19 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 20 | However , after some time had passed , and I had exhausted the tasks which could usefully be achieved with the implements I happened to have at hand , Miss Kenton was evidently still outside . |
| 21 | ‘ The most extraordinary thing happened , ’ he explained , ‘ I was sitting here ( at his desk in Kensington palace ) , and I happened to look at the bookshelf , and my eyes settled on a book about Paracelsus . |
| 22 | I turned to look at the young man beside me , his long fingered hands resting on the steering wheel . |
| 23 | I turned to look at them . |
| 24 | ‘ I turned to look at the retreating figures of my two friends , feeling unbearably isolated , and went to eat alone in the cafeteria . ’ |
| 25 | I turned to look at him . |
| 26 | I turned to look at her face and saw her smiling . |
| 27 | I turned to look at him . |
| 28 | At the door I turned to look at her . |
| 29 | I turned to look at Sam but to my surprise he was not there . |
| 30 | Later , after I had qualified as a teacher and got married , I began to study at the university , teaching at a school during the day . |