Example sentences of "i [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | During the spring , I look at the new beech leaves . |
| 32 | Sometimes I look at the other women , see one with a baby on her knee , then a little child runs up and tells her something that makes her laugh … |
| 33 | Now I look at the confident sexual swagger of young men with more than a faint envy . |
| 34 | Quickly , I look at the real Philip . |
| 35 | I look at the short-term programme and er see , yeah . |
| 36 | For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys . |
| 37 | ‘ One week I look at the various uses of manure , another , say , a flat cap that can improve your golf swing or the cup and spoon for people with moustaches . ’ |
| 38 | I look at the knackered tubes . |
| 39 | ‘ As I look at the shabby , commercialised and demoralised society in which I write I am more convinced than ever that the political analysis on which I was brought up was right . |
| 40 | So how about if I look at the six monthly saving , |
| 41 | I look at the first enjoyed it |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | I look at the false leg for a bit while he pulls up his trouser leg . |
| 44 | I look at the luminous hands of the clock . |
| 45 | 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 . ’ |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor . |
| 49 | As for myself , I arrived at the first weekend in a state of high evangelism that must have bored everyone I met . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | I found fifteen waiting for me when I arrived at the Awash Station , all thoroughly unhappy at the prospect ahead . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch . |
| 54 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
| 55 | I weep at the impending demise of my oldest and supportive friend ! |
| 56 | I glance at the front door : no one showing yet . |
| 57 | I glance at the wrought-iron gate : it 's a long way off . |
| 58 | I taught at a private primary school for girls and really , compared with what some teachers go through , I had a terribly easy time , but I still could n't cope . |
| 59 | Ten minutes ago I knocked at the front door , waited in the street . |
| 60 | I felt guilty — I seem to do that a lot , like when I could n't be with my parents when my father was dying , even when I know at an intellectual level that I do n't need to . |