Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
| 2 | Knowing that I had to start at a new school in the city , with new people and new teachers , I began to worry all over again . |
| 3 | The kitchen looked so clean and bright , and the ladies so kind and sensible , that I dared to knock at the door . |
| 4 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We toured the Transport Museum , ’ said Peter , ‘ and Alexander Karaulov and I stopped to look at the autogyro on display . |
| 7 | ‘ No , I 've been to the office , and I wanted to look at the projected sales figures for this quarter . |
| 8 | If I wanted to point at the put directory . |
| 9 | I invariably sat at the back of the class for reasons not unconnected with gang warfare , and if I needed to glance at the blackboard there was always someone to show me roughly where it was . |
| 10 | I invariably sat at the back of the class for reasons not unconnected with gang warfare , and if I needed to glance at the blackboard there was always someone to show me roughly where it was . |
| 11 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 12 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 13 | 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 . |