Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 3 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 4 | When he suggested Peter , of course I jumped at the chance — Peter was winning absolutely everything . |
| 5 | However , during the initial discussions I hinted at the desirability of video recording or tape recording their science teaching , to examine their use of questioning . |
| 6 | Trying to ignore this assault on my fundamental antinomies I peered at the train set . |
| 7 | Outside in the cobbled farmyard I glanced at the side of the barn . |
| 8 | In the lavatory I stared at the mirror . |
| 9 | On Crag Hill I stopped at the cairn to look down on Dentdale spread below me , Helms Knott , the Howgills and the distant forms of Cross Fell , Dun Fell and , facing me , the long ridge of Barbondale . |
| 10 | There was a beautiful avenue of mimosas I saw at the Gezira when we were walking round . |
| 11 | The team I tipped at the start of the season are now moving into overdrive . |
| 12 | ‘ In the very early days I looked at the market and decided one of the things I wanted to do was to build a big PR company because the market suffered from too many small companies . |
| 13 | The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are . |
| 14 | I see that an article I wrote at the time entitled ‘ What should we say to Germany ? ’ reflected this point of view , though with less explicitness . |
| 15 | One evening I called at the shop for some matches . |
| 16 | Next evening I arrived at the cottage with the rucksack half-full of tinned food , bully beef , steak and kidney and , of course , the tinned plum duff ; chocolate ( the hard stuff from the 48-hour ration pack , but still very tasty ) ; tobacco and some cigarettes — in all , quite a collection of foodstuffs . |
| 17 | The issue was never raised again in the remaining five years I stayed at the Department of Health . |
| 18 | All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ . |
| 19 | as it was published , she does make allowances , she says some of the statistics I upgraded at the publication of the book |
| 20 | I assume you can not , for already the feelings I had at the time are inscrutable to me , so imbued was I with an electric sense of occasion . |
| 21 | And many a night I spent at The Greyhound watching Brinsley Schwarz , diligently studying Nick Lowe 's bass playing . |
| 22 | She did the English , maths I did at the tech , which I got free as I was under eighteen . |
| 23 | As soon as I got into my flat I looked at the Supersight club with great care . |
| 24 | For some reason , Thomas ‘ we make music together ’ Carter crossed my mind , so after delivering the keys to the mechanic I stopped at the ticket agency . |
| 25 | Next morning I looked at the picture critically in the white daylight . |
| 26 | And , on top of that , all the new friends I made at the grammar lived out West , in Greenford or Ealing . |
| 27 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
| 28 | Erm now , the other thing I mentioned at the beginning was certification of the system . |
| 29 | After a few minutes ' walk I arrived at the edge of the wooded area ; in front of me was about two hundred yards of grass , rising to the high ground covered by thick gorse and ferns . |
| 30 | It will ask him to send to me at Baker Street the pocket book I left at the Hall . ’ |