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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	Be before we start can I make two quick announcements , one er I made at the last lecture , that is there is a public lecture given by Baroness at five fifteen today on the subject of the Soviet Union and wh where does it go , erm and that 's in .
3	Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected .
4	I pout at the pouting mackerel
5	I pawed at the hairy form .
6	I shouted at the unfortunate Harry .
7	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 .
8	It had been aimed at my head , but I moved at the last second , prompted by some unclassified intuition of survival .
9	I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger .
10	I trained at the Royal and I 'll be able to get you a bed immediately . ’
11	I knock at the wood-plank door and it sounds as empty as a politician 's promise .
12	And I mentioned at the last meeting I think what has actually been said in the erm meeting I could repeat that , but I mean it confirms exactly what you 're saying .
13	I lapped at the warm , rich blood ; very nice , very fresh .
14	I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station .
15	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 .
16	It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket .
17	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 .
18	I came at the same time as the Sweeper came for I saw him standing by this very cage in clothes the people wear and not in Keeper-clothes such as he began to wear afterwards . ’
19	That handjob I scored at the Happy Isles-I tell you , She-She was giving it away .
20	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 .
21	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 .
22	During the spring , I look at the new beech leaves .
23	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 …
24	Now I look at the confident sexual swagger of young men with more than a faint envy .
25	Quickly , I look at the real Philip .
26	I look at the short-term programme and er see , yeah .
27	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 .
28	‘ 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 . ’
29	I look at the knackered tubes .
30	‘ 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 .