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

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1 Then I crept forward to look at Granny .
2 I get awfully frightened at night .
3 ‘ I mean , if I ca n't choose something that 's actually there and I can try on , what chance would I have just looking at pictures ? ’
4 I had always lived at home with my family .
5 I have also looked at Beta Cygni or Albireo , in the Swan , where there is a golden yellow primary of magnitude 3.2 together with a blue companion of magnitude 5.4 .
6 Another amusing , but really quite typical example which transparently reveals the father-protest behind all other protests is provided by one of the cases cited in the study from which I have already quoted at length :
7 To find employment my father moved to Peterborough and although I have since lived at Rathcoole for a period I have found my childhood friends difficult to trace .
8 After a 20-minute battle against what he described as ‘ the roughest seas I have ever seen at Redcar ’ , he and the unconscious youth were flung on to the beach by the waves .
9 ‘ This is probably my most important game to date , certainly I have never played in front of the kind of crowd that is expected , and I have never played at Twickenham , though I have heard about the swirling wind that can make life uncomfortable for kickers .
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