Example sentences of "[art] [noun] i [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 2 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 3 | In the lavatory I stared at the mirror . |
| 4 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 5 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
| 6 | The team I tipped at the start of the season are now moving into overdrive . |
| 7 | The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are . |
| 8 | as it was published , she does make allowances , she says some of the statistics I upgraded at the publication of the book |
| 9 | All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ . |
| 10 | I assume you can not , for already the feelings I had at the time are inscrutable to me , so imbued was I with an electric sense of occasion . |
| 11 | For some reason , Thomas ‘ we make music together ’ Carter crossed my mind , so after delivering the keys to the mechanic I stopped at the ticket agency . |
| 12 | At least , that 's the feeling I get at the best of my poetry-reading moments . |
| 13 | It was a paeon of praise for the comic I read at the time — a tuppenny coloured one ! |
| 14 | he , he is n't , he 's a bit , up in the air I think at the moment , he does n't know what he wants to do I do n't think |
| 15 | It suits the players I have at the moment . ’ |
| 16 | Yeah but the the reason I look at the the poxy Hotpoint because they say well , they guarantee their part for five years , alright ? |
| 17 | ‘ It means ‘ he ground himself into me ’ , as it says in the book I bought at the airport . ’ |
| 18 | But the thrill I felt at the strange beauty was swept away as I got out and the wind struck me . |
| 19 | ‘ Not the way I look at the moment ! |
| 20 | So will I have to upgrade by replacement in order to make use of the software I have at the moment ? |
| 21 | Well er by the time I arrived at the doorway to the room erm a male person was lying on the floor , spreadeagled er and my job would have been to cover him with the shot gun er to enable P C to go forward and handcuff the chap . |
| 22 | But the battles I had at the BBC over The Monocled Mutineer and Tumbledown ! |
| 23 | A girl I met at a party on Saturday night . ’ |
| 24 | And many a night I spent at The Greyhound watching Brinsley Schwarz , diligently studying Nick Lowe 's bass playing . |
| 25 | On the back of the Topper , a comic I read at the time , was a serial of Robert Louis Stevenson 's Kidnapped , told almost entirely in pictures . |
| 26 | As a follower I marvel at the cunning of the quarry and the pertinacity of the pursuers and often have a sneaking admiration for the ‘ one that got away ’ . |
| 27 | Last year there was at least the argument that high interest rates were about getting inflation down ( a view I disputed at the time ) . |
| 28 | Kids bring out the natural father in me and I get a crinkly mouth every time I look at an ankle snapper . |
| 29 | I see that an article I wrote at the time entitled ‘ What should we say to Germany ? ’ reflected this point of view , though with less explicitness . |