Example sentences of "i [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So how about if I look at the six monthly saving , |
| 32 | I look at the first enjoyed it |
| 33 | When I look at the European Community I see foreign policy and internal security pillars and ask myself how well the Government have been able to keep them purely intergovernmental and how many commitments we are making that will damage British interests in the future . |
| 34 | I look at the false leg for a bit while he pulls up his trouser leg . |
| 35 | I look at the luminous hands of the clock . |
| 36 | When I look at the Olympic fighters here I see several with good styles and professional potential who should make it to the top if they get with the right coaches . ’ |
| 37 | I 'm in bed reading , so I look at the little security system we have , look at the screen — I do n't know this chap , he 's obviously drunk , and obviously ex-public school . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | As for myself , I arrived at the first weekend in a state of high evangelism that must have bored everyone I met . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | I found fifteen waiting for me when I arrived at the Awash Station , all thoroughly unhappy at the prospect ahead . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch . |
| 44 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
| 45 | I weep at the impending demise of my oldest and supportive friend ! |
| 46 | I glance at the front door : no one showing yet . |
| 47 | I glance at the wrought-iron gate : it 's a long way off . |
| 48 | Ten minutes ago I knocked at the front door , waited in the street . |
| 49 | ‘ Ca n't you give up this living ? ’ she asks , and I stare at the invisible ceiling . |
| 50 | I stare at the muddied , warped little card sealed in a deal-sized plastic bag , recognising my own writing and feeling my mouth go even drier than it already is and I can only gibber something about , Well , it looks like my writing but , I mean , and anyway , somebody , anybody could have taken that , I mean … but they just look quietly pleased and the questions go on . |
| 51 | I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |
| 52 | Over a hasty meal , I glanced at the Official Guide to County Meath , a gift from the manager . |
| 53 | I glanced at the answering machine in the corner and saw that the red light was glowing . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | ‘ I remember at the 1987 Europe Cup in Prague , when I was n't in great shape . |
| 56 | We need the money , and from all I heard at the Gaudy , Somerville still deserves it . |
| 57 | But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression . |
| 58 | He said I waved at the poor man like a loony . |
| 59 | I snarled at the inner voice . |
| 60 | When I arrive at the Three Pigeons , Crilly twirls me about to look at me . |