Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 2 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But when I looked again at the taut group riveted to the game , now not even speaking , I had my doubts . |
| 5 | I looked round the room , then I looked again at the old man . |
| 6 | I looked again at the little cat . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I looked apprehensively at the five operating-type tables spaced far from each other round the wide tiled room . |
| 9 | I looked doubtfully at the rickety structure of planks and corrugated iron . |
| 10 | ‘ I feared even at the eleventh hour that it would not be possible — and I knew not when we could meet else . ’ |
| 11 | We opt for The Baker 's Wife at the Phoenix and all vote it a definite winner , and I wonder again at the jaundiced palate of critics who gave it a fair old drubbing when it first trotted out . |
| 12 | A sphere of hard solid rubber not much bigger than a golf ball and jammed like a cork in the pharynx , effectively blocking the trachea , I scrabbled feverishly at the wet smoothness but there was nothing to get bold of . |
| 13 | Just what I need right at the present moment ! ’ |