Example sentences of "i [vb past] at [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 2 | The new shithouse clerk , a small , wiry Liverpudlian , was taking his new appointment very seriously when I arrived at his canvasstructured place of work . |
| 3 | And as I marvelled at his breathtaking skiing the cost of a coffee in the Nederhutte mountain restaurant was not top of my concerns . |
| 4 | She , he found , ‘ though bold , how modest … just as when first I kissed at your sweet asking , little one , by the winter gorse ’ . |
| 5 | I looked at her dark face , filled with a mixture of anger and hurt , then at little Mary beside her who , over the years , solemnly drank in the insults offered to her beloved mother . |
| 6 | And so I looked at my uneasy mistress with an anxious and angry eye which she was unable to meet . |
| 7 | I looked at my poor troopers . |
| 8 | I looked at my lovely children and realised the suffering I had put them through . |
| 9 | And as I looked at my little daughter , bright-eyed and ready to challenge the world , I could only pray that I would be ‘ good enough ’ in the new dance that was just beginning . |
| 10 | If I said I saw sex organs when I looked at your rotten ink blots that would really get you going , would n't it ? |
| 11 | I looked at his young wife , Dawn , with her four young children visiting Salisbury for the week-end . |
| 12 | And I looked at his sad face . |
| 13 | I looked at his plastered leg . |
| 14 | I looked at his little hands , counted his fingers and wondered how perfect he was . |
| 15 | Princess Ashraf later wrote that as Carter spoke , " I looked at his pale face . |
| 16 | As I looked at his stern face , I knew I could go anywhere in the world with him as a colleague , but I could never lose my freedom by marrying him . |
| 17 | I looked at our fellow passengers . |
| 18 | Twenty-five years later in West Mercia , as a newly promoted superintendent , I listened at my first conference as my peers discussed a chief constable 's agreement which allowed officers to discard ties in hot weather and wear open-necked shirts . |
| 19 | At a launch of a new diagnostic technique the Chief Executive of a hi-tech company in the medical field seeks your advice on two public relations programmes : I Aimed at his own company 's staff : 230 of them at two factories 65 miles apart and at an R and D facility with 38 senior staff . |