Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | That handjob I scored at the Happy Isles-I tell you , She-She was giving it away . |
4 | I giggle a little as I fetch the little dark blue jacket I bought at the same time : it was rather extravagant to buy both but they seemed to belong together . |
5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
6 | At least , that 's the feeling I get at the best of my poetry-reading moments . |
7 | One Christmas Eve I woke at the critical moment , and saw , not Santa Claus , but three familiar figures indulging in heavy horse play at the foot of the bed . |
8 | But the thrill I felt at the strange beauty was swept away as I got out and the wind struck me . |