Example sentences of "i [vb past] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water , in which no creature could prosper , and the dockside crowds of welcome floating and swimming above like tropical fish . |
| 2 | I pawed at the hairy form . |
| 3 | I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger . |
| 4 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
| 5 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 6 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 7 | One Christmas Eve I woke at the critical moment , and saw , not Santa Claus , but three familiar figures indulging in heavy horse play at the foot of the bed . |
| 8 | I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 9 | I found fifteen waiting for me when I arrived at the Awash Station , all thoroughly unhappy at the prospect ahead . |
| 10 | As I arrived at the recent show of Eileen Cooper 's drawings at the Benjamin Rhodes Gallery after visiting the controversial ( read media-hype ) show , Strange Developments , at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery , I could not help but find great comfort in the sheer generosity of spirit with which these big drawings greet you . |
| 11 | When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch . |
| 12 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
| 13 | Ten minutes ago I knocked at the front door , waited in the street . |
| 14 | ( 1966 : 72 ) recognized such unobtrusive measures have found favour in field-work and I discovered at an early stage that the problem remains one of revealing the structural warts of the system while somehow indicating that this need not be seditious ; and indeed might even be of some value . |
| 15 | Over a hasty meal , I glanced at the Official Guide to County Meath , a gift from the manager . |
| 16 | I glanced at the answering machine in the corner and saw that the red light was glowing . |
| 17 | Once more I glanced at the large flour mill , temporarily closed , despite the addition of a new silvery turbine engine to take the place of water power . |
| 18 | He said I waved at the poor man like a loony . |
| 19 | I snarled at the inner voice . |
| 20 | , I was seventeen , I worked at the Flying Horse . |
| 21 | Driving away , I noticed that the vast chimney was still not functioning , but when I called at a neighbouring house a woman showed me videos she had taken of smoke coming from the plant , settling in her garden . |
| 22 | I started at a new school after Easter and this may have something to do with it because it was n't as bad before . |
| 23 | I started at the early age of five , and I was taught until I was ten , and all day at that . |
| 24 | And I started at the General Hospital er in on May the first nineteen twenty nine . |
| 25 | But the thrill I felt at the strange beauty was swept away as I got out and the wind struck me . |
| 26 | I stared at a huge rectangle of light , it was pinkish floating flickering and suddenly I saw … a pig ! |
| 27 | I stared at the opposite wall . |
| 28 | I stared at the empty yard where Billingsley 's car had stood . |
| 29 | I stared at the skull-like face , the hollowed cheek bones , the red hair now combed smoothly back from the forehead . |
| 30 | Mala and I stared at the enlarging disc that appeared on other screens after Posi revolved the ship to bring the lateral ceptors to bear . |