Example sentences of "i [vb past] and [verb] at the " in BNC.
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1 | I changed and bathed at the tavern where my master was staying in Great Mary Axe Street near Bishopsgate . |
2 | I stopped and looked at the big house . |
3 | I turned and looked at the subtly tarted , much breathed-upon 300 sitting at the kerb , then made a show of sizing up Yvonne . |
4 | I turned and looked at the man 's tear-stained face . |
5 | I enjoyed and suffered at the same time . ’ |
6 | I sat and stared at the paper in front of me and tried to blank out the present and get back into my story — forward , that is , into my invented future , and out of the world of queries and vague apprehensions . |
7 | As I stood and gazed at the now empty slit trenches , I could n't help a sinking feeling in my stomach as I pictured in my mind those who had occupied the trenches in this orchard , those who had been killed or seriously wounded . |
8 | There were three or four cinemas round here — I stood and gazed at the pictures outside and thought , ‘ Space , cowboys and sex . |
9 | I gagged and glanced at the two bald-pated twins : they did n't seem so terrible now but rather pathetic . |