Example sentences of "i [verb] at [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I hope it is n't just sentimentality that makes me baulk at his drastic solution . |
| 2 | In future when I land at anything other than properly documented airfields I will ask the question : Are there any other runways or strips that look like runways in the vicinity that could be mistaken for the active runway ? |
| 3 | Now , gentle reader , I expect at my third reference to you as ‘ gentle reader ’ you 're starting to feel rather less than gentle towards me . |
| 4 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 5 | I stop at my usual vantage point and even before I have switched off the engine I see the otter . |
| 6 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |
| 7 | I look at what that is in value , about two and a half thousand , I 'll look at this one , |
| 8 | I look at them all . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's hard to forgive , when I look at your sad eyes , and feel your thin hands . |
| 10 | I look at your lovely cherry tree . |
| 11 | ‘ If I look at my last two years in football it 's been virtually to the last kick of the game in the last two seasons , so it will be the same again . |
| 12 | The new shithouse clerk , a small , wiry Liverpudlian , was taking his new appointment very seriously when I arrived at his canvasstructured place of work . |
| 13 | ‘ Why ca n't I look at my own work ? ’ he asked . |
| 14 | I barked at him this morning and he barked back . |
| 15 | And as I marvelled at his breathtaking skiing the cost of a coffee in the Nederhutte mountain restaurant was not top of my concerns . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sorry I yelled at you last night , Dad , ’ she said . |
| 17 | She , he found , ‘ though bold , how modest … just as when first I kissed at your sweet asking , little one , by the winter gorse ’ . |
| 18 | One of the things that does , I 'm not being Chairman , just asking questions , but one of the things that slightly concerns me because I know that in his document the director has put about providing day care type facilities in rural areas and I remember at our last meeting , the last meeting at one , we discussed specifically and area , erm it does , does worry me a little whether the absence of any capital expenditure on our part means that we may be providing day care facilities in some areas but it 'll be of a very much lower quality or a lesser quality than we may be providing anywhere else in the areas like and and . |
| 19 | Yeah , I waved at you all . |
| 20 | I smile at his tremulous respect mixed with greediness . |
| 21 | I stared at his thin purply-grey T-shirt and his shoulder-blades heaving underneath . |
| 22 | I looked at what all those other glamour pusses produced and I thought , Edna , you can knock them into a cocked hat . |
| 23 | I looked at her dark face , filled with a mixture of anger and hurt , then at little Mary beside her who , over the years , solemnly drank in the insults offered to her beloved mother . |
| 24 | My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality . |
| 25 | If I looked at them all night long , I should n't grow tired of the sight . ’ |
| 26 | He says slight seconds , well I looked at them last night and there 's , I ca n't see nowt wrong with them . |
| 27 | I looked at him closer ; trusted that he was not one of those ( not so many ) that I 'd pleasured myself with . |
| 28 | I looked at him puzzled and said I did n't have a clue what he was talking about . |
| 29 | I looked at him nonplussed . |
| 30 | But because she did n't respond , I looked at her more . |