Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] at [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have tried to identify the pattern of presuppositions which underlay common sense arguments about the meaning of my two study texts ; I look both at their theoretical adequacy as explanatory models of racism , and at their rhetorical power as a means of winning consent for certain ‘ exemplary ’ or ‘ ideologically correct ’ formulations of how antiracist work should be done . |
| 2 | I look up at our old house ; bushes and trees are taller . |
| 3 | When I look back at my golden youth all I can remember is people trying to hang poor old Shallot . |
| 4 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 5 | I grinned contemptuously at his retreating back , looked once more at the stable , saw an eyeball glistening on the wet straw and promptly vomited myself . |
| 6 | I looked smugly at my heavy rucksack with its bedding , iron rations , matches , camera , thick woolly , good torch , spare batteries , toothbrush , towel and soap . |
| 7 | I looked helplessly at their innocent , familiar faces : Aunt Kit 's so ravaged and white , Aunt Lilian 's so smooth , plumped out with age where Aunt Kit 's had fallen in . |
| 8 | I looked down at my sweet-smelling rosy babies , newly bathed and attired for the night in matching Christmas pyjamas and fluffy slippers . |
| 9 | The second I walked off the set , a wave of pain hit me and I looked down at my grazed shins and one swollen knee . |