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

No	Sentence
1	Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water , in which no creature could prosper , and the dockside crowds of welcome floating and swimming above like tropical fish .
2	I pout at the pouting mackerel
3	I pawed at the hairy form .
4	I shouted at the unfortunate Harry .
5	Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls .
6	I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger .
7	I trained at the Royal and I 'll be able to get you a bed immediately . ’
8	I knock at the wood-plank door and it sounds as empty as a politician 's promise .
9	I lapped at the warm , rich blood ; very nice , very fresh .
10	We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity .
11	One Christmas Eve I woke at the critical moment , and saw , not Santa Claus , but three familiar figures indulging in heavy horse play at the foot of the bed .
12	That handjob I scored at the Happy Isles-I tell you , She-She was giving it away .
13	Rachel and I wait at the little barrier in the station terminus , and again I think what an ordinary pair of holidaymakers we must look — too tatty to be honeymooners , but the same kind of contentment together .
14	I look at the dark house in front of me and the screens of tall shrubs and young trees on either side concealing the two neighbouring villas .
15	During the spring , I look at the new beech leaves .
16	Sometimes I look at the other women , see one with a baby on her knee , then a little child runs up and tells her something that makes her laugh …
17	Now I look at the confident sexual swagger of young men with more than a faint envy .
18	Quickly , I look at the real Philip .
19	I look at the short-term programme and er see , yeah .
20	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 .
21	‘ One week I look at the various uses of manure , another , say , a flat cap that can improve your golf swing or the cup and spoon for people with moustaches . ’
22	I look at the knackered tubes .
23	‘ 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 .
24	When I look at the European Community I see foreign policy and internal security pillars and ask myself how well the Government have been able to keep them purely intergovernmental and how many commitments we are making that will damage British interests in the future .
25	I look at the false leg for a bit while he pulls up his trouser leg .
26	I look at the luminous hands of the clock .
27	When I look at the Olympic fighters here I see several with good styles and professional potential who should make it to the top if they get with the right coaches . ’
28	I 'm in bed reading , so I look at the little security system we have , look at the screen — I do n't know this chap , he 's obviously drunk , and obviously ex-public school .
29	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 .
30	I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes .