Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm There was a great deal of difficulty I think at the court , as well as the rather glamorous exterior . |
| 2 | One of the things the group in Wolverhampton I think at the Theatre Royal there is , is doing both audio descriptions by sign language I think and one of the things they 've , they , they do is meet in the bar |
| 3 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 4 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 5 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 6 | When he suggested Peter , of course I jumped at the chance — Peter was winning absolutely everything . |
| 7 | However , during the initial discussions I hinted at the desirability of video recording or tape recording their science teaching , to examine their use of questioning . |
| 8 | Trying to ignore this assault on my fundamental antinomies I peered at the train set . |
| 9 | Now I do n't care what people say : at times I look at the child and I am so happy I ca n't sleep at night . |
| 10 | However , at other times I feel at the end of my tether . |
| 11 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
| 12 | Outside in the cobbled farmyard I glanced at the side of the barn . |
| 13 | In the lavatory I stared at the mirror . |
| 14 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 15 | Looking back at him , she said , ‘ The only ambition I have at the moment is to survive my eighteen months with G.W. Fashions . |
| 16 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 17 | On Crag Hill I stopped at the cairn to look down on Dentdale spread below me , Helms Knott , the Howgills and the distant forms of Cross Fell , Dun Fell and , facing me , the long ridge of Barbondale . |
| 18 | There was a beautiful avenue of mimosas I saw at the Gezira when we were walking round . |
| 19 | The team I tipped at the start of the season are now moving into overdrive . |
| 20 | ‘ In the very early days I looked at the market and decided one of the things I wanted to do was to build a big PR company because the market suffered from too many small companies . |
| 21 | The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are . |
| 22 | I see that an article I wrote at the time entitled ‘ What should we say to Germany ? ’ reflected this point of view , though with less explicitness . |
| 23 | One evening I called at the shop for some matches . |
| 24 | Next evening I arrived at the cottage with the rucksack half-full of tinned food , bully beef , steak and kidney and , of course , the tinned plum duff ; chocolate ( the hard stuff from the 48-hour ration pack , but still very tasty ) ; tobacco and some cigarettes — in all , quite a collection of foodstuffs . |
| 25 | That handjob I scored at the Happy Isles-I tell you , She-She was giving it away . |
| 26 | The issue was never raised again in the remaining five years I stayed at the Department of Health . |
| 27 | All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ . |
| 28 | as it was published , she does make allowances , she says some of the statistics I upgraded at the publication of the book |
| 29 | I assume you can not , for already the feelings I had at the time are inscrutable to me , so imbued was I with an electric sense of occasion . |
| 30 | And many a night I spent at The Greyhound watching Brinsley Schwarz , diligently studying Nick Lowe 's bass playing . |