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Example sentences of "i [verb] at " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape !
2	I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home .
3	That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question .
4	When at last he placed the phone down he turned and gazed at Joe , saying in a bewildered tone , ‘ It 's Harry ; they … they want me to go at once . ’
5	" He has never asked me to go at this time of night before , " she whispered .
6	It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing .
7	Although Jeff making me laugh at myself was the beginning of the end of my depression , it was n't enough to persuade me to stay .
8	Peter does n't make me laugh at all .
9	This line of thinking , however , seems to me to miss at least one major point .
10	At the time I was of the same colouring ( there 's a portrait of me hanging at Burpham ) .
11	The professor 's secretary , who is wearing fluffy aquamarine slippers , asks me to wait at the end of a blank corridor .
12	Much of the writing about television fiction seems to me to remain at the level of elementary genres , grounded in the dominance of the semantic aspect , with relatively little analytic or historical attention to the ‘ verbal ’ ( style , mise-en-scene ) or the ‘ syntactic ’ ( narrative structure ) : there is very little close textual analysis of television fiction , and there is no scholarly history of the development of television form to compare with the histories which have emerged of early cinema .
13	’ , ‘ Comfortable woman needed , good with children … ’ , when the thought came to me that , with a roof over my head and just about enough money to live on , there was no real need for me to work at all .
14	I needed a job which would enable me to work at home , and be with my family every evening .
15	Anna had me educated at home as she herself had been and Constanza .
16	‘ One of them was so desperate to stop me overtaking at the ford he lost his footing and fell backwards into the water . ’
17	So I hope it is n't just sentimentality that makes me baulk at his drastic solution .
18	Yes there were criticism but it 's not appropriate for me to comment at the moment .
19	So was old Jacko , who 'd made me re-write at Thrills piece twice and still did n't run it .
20	‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats .
21	Several times while I was at Magdalen he had me to dine at All Souls with its distinguished Fellows .
22	I have preferred Irish humour ever since I heard of the Dublin man visiting London who wrote to his wife … ‘ and if you do not receive this letter you are to let me know at once ! ’
23	Please let me know at least two days in advance so that I can make other arrangements . ’
24	Oh right , so let me know at the end of the week .
25	Perhaps you could let me know at the meeting next Wednesday .
26	Well if you let me know at the meeting then I 'll . .
27	If you let me know at the meeting and .
28	Well let me know at the meeting .
29	Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies .
30	I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer .