Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 2 | There is an inexplicable rightness about it which makes me want to look at it for ages . |
| 3 | Why should I want to look at pictures of you stuck in little cracks ? |
| 4 | Ca n't be certain , but it looks as if Allied Signal Corp chief executive Lawrence Bossidy has ruled himself out of the running for the top job at IBM Corp : he says that although he is ‘ flattered to be mentioned as a candidate for chairman of another company , I intend to remain at Allied-Signal to complete the job I came here to do . ’ |
| 5 | Due to the publication schedule of ‘ Contact ’ I am actually writing this before the AGM , so I ca n't say anything more about it except that I intend to resign at it , due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area , so this will be the last time you will hear about London Branch from me . |
| 6 | Bradshaw was the only man I met to laugh at twenty-foot waves . |
| 7 | When I married my wife Mary , however , I planned to stay at home for a while . |
| 8 | The first opportunity I got to look at this stuff is on Sunday on the library |
| 9 | I tried to explain at that press conference and the only one who understood was Bridges , the only one . |
| 10 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 11 | I only remembered it when I leaned forward or when I tried to sleep at night . |
| 12 | I tried to lunge at them with my talons but crows are clever , crows can judge distance to the fraction of a talon . |
| 13 | I tried to look at the scenery . |
| 14 | I tried to smile at him through my tears , but I realized it had n't turned out very well , so I squeezed his hand which I was holding . |
| 15 | I tried to laugh at myself , but I did not succeed . |
| 16 | In Chapter 5 I propose to look at a different aspect of metalinguistic politics : the way in which grammarians and linguists have projected a male/ female dichotomy on to the languages of the world , and their attempts to use grammar as a tactical weapon in the battle of the sexes . |
| 17 | I promised to stay at Morton school until Christmas , when St John would be able to find another teacher . |
| 18 | That fact that in , a two years time I can go on to do the subjects that I want to do at the University in Scotland of my choice . |
| 19 | But what I want to do at my present moment is maintain my share of the business . |
| 20 | SIR — On July 28 , 1980 , Neil Kinnock told The Times : ‘ I want to retire at 50 , I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter , and sing in the choir . ’ |
| 21 | Erm now what I want to say at the very very end is a quick observation by Beatrix Campbell who wrote a book about the Cleveland er child sex abuse scandal which took place in the late 1980's . |
| 22 | I have suggested already that he is all The Dubliners combined — the lost child , the resigned girl , the lonely or frustrated man , the seeker of false comfort — now I want to come at his importance from a different angle . |
| 23 | What I want to get at through these quicksand-like words is how Coward shared and contributed to making the male homosexual structure of feeling that I and many other contemporary gay men find in his writing . |
| 24 | I want to get at my product knowledge up to scratch , I 'm going to get my sales skills up to scratch . |
| 25 | Every time the door opens I want to rush at it and out . |
| 26 | ‘ I want to play at Liverpool , and I 'm glad I 'm back in the squad , which must mean I will come into consideration . |
| 27 | If he and Devlin leave Portugal together I want to know at once . ’ |
| 28 | I want to look at the consequences of replacing these assumptions by two others : that we should concentrate on how mind might develop out of matter ; and that we should view the mind primarily as something which enables action . |
| 29 | ‘ I want to look at you without any clothes on , ’ she said suddenly as she watched him suck his chocolate . |
| 30 | It is this aspect of the craft that I want to look at first this month . |