Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I gazed down at the reclining form .
2 Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure .
3 I expect I woke up at the wrong time .
4 It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through
5 I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared .
6 I walked in at the first door I saw .
7 Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene .
8 I called in at the wrong time .
9 I stared up at the grey sky and the black ravens which circled above the battlements like the souls of men condemned to wander the earth forever .
10 As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona .
11 I stared down at the white face of the ratman .
12 But when I looked again at the taut group riveted to the game , now not even speaking , I had my doubts .
13 I looked round the room , then I looked again at the old man .
14 I looked again at the little cat .
15 I felt sure that if Mr Reed had lived he would have treated me kindly , and now , as I looked round at the dark furniture and the walls in shadow , I began to fear that his ghost might come back to punish his wife for not keeping her promise .
16 I looked round at the two dead Germans lying in the middle of the road .
17 I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old .
18 Slowly I looked around at the other boys .
19 I looked around at the other passengers and tried to start a conversation .
20 As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about .
21 As I approached I looked wonderingly at the slight figure with the soft fairish hair falling over his brow , at the holed cardigan and muck-encrusted wellingtons .
22 I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin .
23 Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room .
24 I looked up at the French NCO , he steps forward and orders two Germans to pick up their Officer and the other two to pick up and carry the wounded Commando .
25 I looked up at the concrete-grey sky , still surprisingly free of graffiti .
26 I looked apprehensively at the five operating-type tables spaced far from each other round the wide tiled room .
27 I looked doubtfully at the rickety structure of planks and corrugated iron .
28 I looked back at the first .
29 Wistfully , I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well .
30 I looked down at the perfect rosebud lips , the determined chin and the tiny clenched fists of my cub .
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