Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’ |
| 2 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 3 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 4 | Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies . |
| 5 | Then he made me look at the windows . |
| 6 | When the firemen finally arrived I pointed at the sacrificial pyre still burning and burbled something about my priceless slide-collection . |
| 7 | Whereas in the 6th edition the re-written §246 dismisses the above as ‘ all my experience permitted me to say at the time … and that his research of the previous five years had wholly solved the difficulties of repetition . |
| 8 | ‘ Walked on the race course before breakfast the air balmy and very delightful , great numbers of the blue mountain parrots were making their morning meal on a large kind of the Eucalypti — two of the beautiful Nankeen night herons passed over our heads and we heard the curious note of the coul [ cowl ] bird or bald-headed friar — returned with an excellent appetite — drew all day — in the evening John called me to look at the skin of a snake more than six feet long which James shot in the act of ascending a tree — also brought me some beautiful specimens of a climbing plant bearing thick clusters of cream colour blossoms . ’ |
| 9 | Reid saw me looking at the iron bars . |
| 10 | He saw me looking at the picture and said , ‘ Kolwezi , Southern Zaire , 1978 . ’ |
| 11 | But something kept me sitting at the desk . |
| 12 | 1991 , 27 1042 ) , prompted a childhood memory and sent me rummaging at the top of the house for 300 Things a bright boy can do , a book presented to me by some relative ca 1928 . |
| 13 | Ooh , did I cry at the end ! ’ |
| 14 | In fact he had me arriving at the scene in a police car with two tones , at , at , at that time we did n't have police cars with two tones , just siren , so they obviously put some sound on it . |
| 15 | November 2nd 1981 had me arriving at the mere on a calm , mild , dull day that saw hardly a ripple on the surface . |
| 16 | He said I waved at the poor man like a loony . |
| 17 | I said read the bloody words then and she said oh I never read the words she said I looks at the pictures . |
| 18 | He wanted me to look at the provision by the business of work experience for secondary school students during the compulsory stage of their education . |