Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] at " in BNC.
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1 | erm There was a great deal of difficulty I think at the court , as well as the rather glamorous exterior . |
2 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
3 | The ox heart I bought at Corrigans weighed 2lbs 13oz and cost £2.42p . |
4 | When he suggested Peter , of course I jumped at the chance — Peter was winning absolutely everything . |
5 | In the same afternoon I teach at Hurtwood , School , Peaslake . |
6 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
7 | Outside in the cobbled farmyard I glanced at the side of the barn . |
8 | In the lavatory I stared at the mirror . |
9 | So in this chapter I look at what is meant by power and how some individuals and groups exercise social power . |
10 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
11 | As we got into the car I looked at Eva and she smiled at me . |
12 | Looking back at him , she said , ‘ The only ambition I have at the moment is to survive my eighteen months with G.W. Fashions . |
13 | The only light I use at night is a small torch which I can grip in my mouth while using both hands to bait up , sharpen or change hooks , or make any other adjustments to my tackle . |
14 | All the painting and drawing I did at Tintagel Primary culminated in my ‘ masterpiece ’ , of which I was quite proud . |
15 | Now I am studying to get a British qualification to continue the work I did at home . |
16 | And I suppose he that 's an area where one is worried about quantity and quality because it 's in a way you can always provide more quantity I imagine at a lesser cost by going into a conurbation than you can by going into rural areas . |
17 | Is n't that funny that reminds me of an old girl I had at Dennis House the one I used to be on i I used to have to get her in bed get her all propped up and then |
18 | A girl I met at a party on Saturday night . ’ |
19 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
20 | At home I looked at everything more carefully . |
21 | I went to the Wicklow Gardens Festival last year and enjoyed it thoroughly ; and the welcome I received at Hunter 's Hotel makes a return visit hard to resist . |
22 | ‘ If people of small fortunes are carried of by C[ommission] 's can I wonder at it ? ’ asked the Duke of Montrose . |
23 | With all my might I stamped at its head , but missed it by a couple of inches ; again I stamped with the same extraordinary result ; but with the third stamp I caught the poor little creature and crushed it to pulp , and yet it gave one more thrust with its tiny legs and then lay still . |
24 | On the day in question I attended at Buckingham Palace and was received by Lord Plunket , and to my delight also found Lady Susan Hussey , who was the Lady-in-Waiting and the wife of my old friend Duke Hussey . |
25 | Tha that 's the answer to the general question I asked at what the poem' about . |
26 | The same question I asked at city hall , it 's slightly different in that now the council has left two and a half available over the next erm three years given that it is not already taken . |
27 | The team I tipped at the start of the season are now moving into overdrive . |
28 | And er my first job I had at Lyness was working for William on the tanks outside , tarmacadam under the tanks . |
29 | The cellar I have at least seen , and been in occasionally ; I know all the rooms on the ground floor and the second ; the loft is my domain entirely and home of the Wasp Factory , no less ; but that one room on the first floor I do n't know , I have never even seen inside . |
30 | He made birdie to open up a four-shot lead I looked at him and winked . |