Example sentences of "i [verb] at my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I stop at my usual vantage point and even before I have switched off the engine I see the otter . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Why ca n't I look at my own work ? ’ he asked . |
| 6 | And so I looked at my uneasy mistress with an anxious and angry eye which she was unable to meet . |
| 7 | I looked at my poor troopers . |
| 8 | I looked at my lovely children and realised the suffering I had put them through . |
| 9 | And as I looked at my little daughter , bright-eyed and ready to challenge the world , I could only pray that I would be ‘ good enough ’ in the new dance that was just beginning . |
| 10 | Twenty-five years later in West Mercia , as a newly promoted superintendent , I listened at my first conference as my peers discussed a chief constable 's agreement which allowed officers to discard ties in hot weather and wear open-necked shirts . |
| 11 | At such times , I wonder at my own job and the meaningless sterility of the statistics which are my trade . |
| 12 | You know , when the chips are down , when the deadline gets near , that 's when I work at my best . |