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

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1 However , Brownie Helper 's husband would act as chauffeur , so not being able to think of more excludes , I duly arrived at the appointed hour , to find a welcoming party of six little girls , all anxious to fetch and carry equipment .
2 On that frozen trackway , however , I just stared at the grotesque thing lying in the snow ; the hand seemed to be thrusting up through the earth as if some ghoul was struggling to rise from its grave .
3 The first part I ever did at the Old Vic was Ophelia , in 1957 .
4 I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim .
5 I also looked at the painted surface .
6 For as much as I reject the demo mentality , I also despair at the apolitical bipartisanship of our national mainstream parties .
7 As the father of young children myself , I often wonder at the adult-oriented visual images , themes and preoccupations which seem to dominate so much of our children 's publishing , and the failure to recognise that today 's generations of youngsters have grown up conditioned by the immediate access and instant gratification provided by the likes of television and computer games .
8 I sometimes wonder at the sheer multiplicity of the oyster Gryphaea arcuata there must have been on the earliest Jurassic sea-floors over what is now Europe , and the millions upon millions of creatures ( whatever they were ) that chewed their way through mid Jurassic mud to produce the trace-fossil Zoophycos .
9 ‘ Eh , gracias , eh , señor , ’ I half spat at the small man as I turned my back on him and left .
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