Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean we look at the motor car and see that as a energy conversion system it 's approximately eighteen percent efficient . |
| 2 | it 'll be back again Mind you , I feel it I mean I know at the moment it 's it 's me I my elbows in the morning I ca n't hardly move them when I wake up in the morning because I get that far my arms have to be outside the bed and our bedroom 's that cold |
| 3 | I mean I think at the end of the day because we 're w going to have to basically in a sense your job I think even though at the moment you 're saying you know fine I 'm not gon na exclude anything , I think it 's actually going to be sort of , to try and eliminate most of this . |
| 4 | Oh yeah they 've got one forty R on there but , I mean you look at the set and it says er where did I get the number ? |
| 5 | I du n no erm , no I do n't like them at all it 's in fact I 'm not even impressed with it I mean you look at the people with G six hundred and you look at the fifty six |
| 6 | " I expect they think at the Lab that I exploit you . " |
| 7 | I expect you aimed at the walls. , |
| 8 | I found myself gazing at the harmonium and my memories of the happy times I 'd spent listening to Miss Louise play came flooding back and I wept more . |
| 9 | One horrible night I found myself crouched at the door , listening for sounds of pain which would have given me pleasure , sounds of pleasure that would have hurt . |
| 10 | ‘ I suggest you look at the evidence with your own eyes before you start accusations that you might find impossible to back up . |
| 11 | Now the next , I want you to look at the verse prologue of the play . |
| 12 | ‘ I want you to begin at the beginning and tell me your life . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's a very special person I want you to meet at the concert tomorrow . |
| 14 | ‘ Dave , I want you to stay at the office . |
| 15 | ‘ I told you to stay at the house . ’ |
| 16 | I know I said at the beginning that it could help save lives , am I er overstating the mark there ? |
| 17 | Yes , yes , yes and I would n't pay my rent because er ooh and I can tell you really the exact date when I er was pregnant because I know I quickened at the when it was first opened and er I was a waitress in the Room I think it was . |
| 18 | I remember I looked at the pile of Billy 's goods and chattels which were supposed to fit inside a twelve-by-six-foot room and saying : ‘ I came with a Sainsbury 's carrier — and I had trouble filling that . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I tell her to sit at the back of the class , otherwise nobody can see over her head . ’ |
| 20 | I heard him growling at the crowd . |
| 21 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 22 | As we dance I find myself staring at the French girl — she has a very pretty face with long , dark hair on to her shoulders , slim build and about 5′ 2″ in height . |
| 23 | As so often in this story of my own anorexia nervosa , I find myself arriving at the same conclusion , the same central statement : it could have worked for some people , but it did n't work for me . |
| 24 | ‘ You say she cleared out ; I suppose you looked at the possibility that she went — wherever she did go — not of her own free will ? ’ |
| 25 | I watched her sipping at the stuff , making faces . |
| 26 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 27 | And I 'm going as slow as I can go and I 'm just taking everything in , and I 'm unwinding , I 'm relaxing mentally and physically as I do it because that 's what I feel I need at the moment , and having that ability is good . |
| 28 | For example : I expect her to obey me when I make a reasonable request or command , so that , if ( say ) I ask her to remain at the table until she 's finished her meal , she does so without endless arguments or fits of temper . |
| 29 | I 've watched Casualty on TV often enough , so I knew what to expect at the hospital : lots of furrowed brows and swishing cubicle curtains . |
| 30 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |