Example sentences of "as i [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 2 | ‘ As I looked at the magnificent vehicle I could not help thinking of the historical ‘ Experiment ’ of the Stockton and Darlington Railway , or of the Exhibition excursions of 1851 , when the GW nailed rough boards across their permanent way trucks at Didcot to accommodate their third class passengers ! |
| 3 | I turned round , half-expecting to hear a giggle , a rather inane giggle ; and then as I looked at the thick shadowy scrub near the gate , and remembered the grim reference to Prospero , a more sinister explanation came to me . |
| 4 | In short , as I said at the very beginning of this series of lectures , you must n't treat what as I say as gospel erm I am perfectly capable of being a little bit eccentric , possibly even a little bit erm original erm in my interpretations . |
| 5 | As I said at the Conservative party conference , I want to make it clear that our policy is colour blind . |
| 6 | For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys . |
| 7 | ‘ As I look at the shabby , commercialised and demoralised society in which I write I am more convinced than ever that the political analysis on which I was brought up was right . |
| 8 | I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station . |
| 9 | As I arrived at the recent show of Eileen Cooper 's drawings at the Benjamin Rhodes Gallery after visiting the controversial ( read media-hype ) show , Strange Developments , at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery , I could not help but find great comfort in the sheer generosity of spirit with which these big drawings greet you . |