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

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1 It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing .
2 The professor 's secretary , who is wearing fluffy aquamarine slippers , asks me to wait at the end of a blank corridor .
3 Much of the writing about television fiction seems to me to remain at the level of elementary genres , grounded in the dominance of the semantic aspect , with relatively little analytic or historical attention to the ‘ verbal ’ ( style , mise-en-scene ) or the ‘ syntactic ’ ( narrative structure ) : there is very little close textual analysis of television fiction , and there is no scholarly history of the development of television form to compare with the histories which have emerged of early cinema .
4 ‘ One of them was so desperate to stop me overtaking at the ford he lost his footing and fell backwards into the water . ’
5 Yes there were criticism but it 's not appropriate for me to comment at the moment .
6 ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats .
7 Oh right , so let me know at the end of the week .
8 Perhaps you could let me know at the meeting next Wednesday .
9 Well if you let me know at the meeting then I 'll . .
10 If you let me know at the meeting and .
11 Well let me know at the meeting .
12 Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies .
13 Might , perhaps ; there 's just something ; that 's why I asked at the meeting , but I 'd have to see the letter first , partly to see what 's in it , partly just to see it . ’
14 All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ .
15 The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ?
16 I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years .
17 I gazed at the devastation from behind a stone horsetrough , lying flat on my face as another explosion sent lumps of metal and cobblestones clattering on to the roofs of the farm buildings .
18 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 .
19 I gazed at the picture of the crocodile pool and all I could think of to say was , did the gallery owner give you a discount because you 're a friend of Robert 's ?
20 I gazed at the pistons , the steam , the vats and the slopping trays : so much wetness to produce something as dry as paper .
21 And , on top of that , all the new friends I made at the grammar lived out West , in Greenford or Ealing .
22 The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are .
23 However , that leaves the galleries open to pressure , when they come to the Minister and make points such as that which I made at the beginning of my speech — saying , for instance , that last year the Tate gallery could buy only one work of art .
24 If , bearing in mind the theory of society and superego development so far advanced in this book , we now turn our attention back to the analysis of modern culture outlined in the article from which I quoted so extensively in the chapter before last , we can see that the following remarks , also from that article , take on a much greater significance in the light of the point which I made at the conclusion of the last regarding the lack of a culturally determined latency period among the Australian aborigines :
25 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 .
26 As I announced at the end of the trial , I am immediately doing two things .
27 I bought along this brochure , you can have a copy if you like but I mean at the back there are forty five institutions all virtually paddling their own canoe .
28 But then they 've always got the threat of er er er I mean at the moment there really is n't that threat is there ?
29 I mean at the end of the day it becomes subjective , like choosing wallpaper .
30 I mean at the moment we ca n't .
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