Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’
2 He said , said you were just standing there and all of a sudden he said you looked at me looked back at the wall just went pee he said it 's all come out , it 's all splattered all over the wall he said , you did your fly up , wiped your mouth , washed your hands and went out again as if nothing had happened .
3 I gazed up at the building .
4 As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky .
5 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 .
6 Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait .
7 I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition .
8 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 .
9 My wife is a business woman with two shops and I came out at the height of the rag trade jamborees .
10 I look around at the milling people , imagining we 'll be split up into smaller groups and led through the blank doors to sit in armchairs and watch a TV set on some kind of plinth .
11 I look over at the posters on the wall .
12 I look over at the changing room .
13 It 's as if he still lives there , so when I go past I look up at the window I 'd put him in .
14 I look up at the windows .
15 But on the other hand , the bibliography for the Tate catalogue required that I look back at a lot of old notices and I find that my perception was not at all valid .
16 I look back at the door .
17 He was a ‘ chest case ’ for years and when I look back at the photographs of him he 's always trying to look normal but actually his face is pained from trying to breathe .
18 When I look back at the photographs I think And even when it was long I had , there was one hairdresser there called Paul , whom I 'd go and see regularly .
19 I look down at the map of the estate .
20 When I arrived back at the Land Rover I met Abdulla , the student teacher , who had been attracted by the breakdown .
21 I was still brimming with plangency , chockful of feeling , when I arrived back at the hotel .
22 When I arrived back at the cafe , I found Kathleen in a perplexed mood .
23 The guns along the banks of the Orne were still firing as I arrived back at the jeep .
24 I arrived back at the Palace Hotel and started to pack .
25 No doubt about it , I 'm not a badlooking guy when I hang out at the Shakespeare .
26 I glance in at the ASI — still reading 150 — then throw my heavy helmeted head back to see the white skyline creeping forward along the canopy .
27 Not long after that blow to the ego , I turned up at a studio to do a commercial .
28 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 .
29 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 ?
30 But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man .
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