Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 2 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 3 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | The kite had a tail of twisted magazine-pages — Guns and Ammo , which I got regularly at the time . |
| 8 | I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
| 13 | I came here at the instigation of your letter , believing myself to have secured a position . |
| 14 | My wife is a business woman with two shops and I came out at the height of the rag trade jamborees . |
| 15 | I was still brimming with plangency , chockful of feeling , when I arrived back at the hotel . |
| 16 | When I arrived back at the cafe , I found Kathleen in a perplexed mood . |
| 17 | The guns along the banks of the Orne were still firing as I arrived back at the jeep . |
| 18 | I arrived back at the Palace Hotel and started to pack . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 22 | ‘ I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine . |
| 23 | Still , I did n't risk a second run and instead I turned left at the end and found myself back on Plumstead Road . |
| 24 | No , I just came over fields , I went along and followed a dyke , I turned left at the cafe , and then followed the first I saw going up . |
| 25 | And erm , the other aspect , the last aspect that gave us er anxiety was something I touched on this morning when I joined in at the end of the Selby discussion . |
| 26 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
| 27 | I swung down at the bottom , deciding to go head first , face up , curling my back down into the soft river bed , praying … |
| 28 | I glanced up at the sky , ‘ It 's going to be light pretty soon . ’ |
| 29 | As I eased down I glanced over at the clock ; it read 10.01 . |
| 30 | Every time that I passed the spot , over the next year or two , I glanced quickly at the building , then scooted past . |