Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally I jumped at the chance . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It was worth doing , or so I thought at the time . |
| 3 | As I say , I could have destroyed you , or so I thought at the time , but you 've turned out to be a lot tougher than I had imagined … not vulnerable or confused at all . |
| 4 | She was a real beauty , or so I thought at the time . |
| 5 | But when he gets round to it , I think he 'll control them a bit more closely , now you can invest in that sort of fund quite safely , and although it wo n't give you any capital growth , because if they 're giving you ten percent income , obviously the capital growth 's going to be limited , but er if it 's the income that you 're after , not a bad thing to do , so I mean at the moment I may actually combine one income-type er P E P with one growth and income , where the , where the , perhaps the yield is about five percent . |
| 6 | I mean , fixed rates are dangerous because once you 've fixed , if interest rates then go up , you 've lost out on your er return and you ca n't get your money out anyway , so I mean at the moment it 's really erm er er very deeply into the cycle of low , of low interest rates . |
| 7 | Mark Higgins is just 10 and said : ‘ I saw boxing on the TV and loved it so I started at the gym twice a week . |
| 8 | So I stayed at the hostel for four weeks . |
| 9 | I have to warn Professor that there 's more than one party can play that game and if he thinks that it is sensible to run the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down then I think it 's unfortunate , it 's bad for this council bad for the people we serve , it does frankly nothing for local government and I ca n't blame central government if it loses patience So I recognise at the end of the day that erm Mr has had troubles with some of his erm er newcomers he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group . |
| 10 | Soon I arrived at the lime-kiln , which was still burning , although the workmen had all gone home . |
| 11 | I suppose that in some recess of his mind he was recalling the old cliché about honours being handed out like lollipops , but the more I look at the sentence the less I understand what he was on about or why it was considered worthy of preserving in print . |
| 12 | Really I think at the end of the day it 's very similar to , to ours , although the price difference is a bit different . |
| 13 | Yeah well I meant at the beginning of them alright ? |
| 14 | Well I looked at the clock , it said twenty to eight , I thought sod it I ai n't getting up . |
| 15 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 16 | Suddenly I heard the noise of an animal jumping through the window , and immediately I hid at the back of my box . |
| 17 | Then I waited at the barrier , the motley flesh around me all pulsing with welcome . |
| 18 | I half got up , then I looked at the hole he 'd gone down and at the paper in my hand . |
| 19 | Then I looked at the rest of myself , and all the rest of me was a … |
| 20 | Then I looked at the chassis and registration numbers and realised it was my old car . |
| 21 | Then I looked at the table . |
| 22 | Oh they bag something terrible but then I say at the price I 'm not gon na buy them , I 'm not , but in the Dodger 's there 's not one small in any colour |
| 23 | Sometimes I despair at the innumeracy of the left . |
| 24 | Yet I seemed at the time to be thinking rationally , to be making common-sense plans . |
| 25 | Not yet I think at the moment they 're organizing it , yes |
| 26 | Everyone else I met at the LIBF was welcoming , even when I was humming and hawing over buying singles or two copies of a small number of titles . |
| 27 | Occasionally I glanced at the TV screen that was showing events already taking place . |
| 28 | Certainly I thought at the time that Hunt would end up sponsored by Marlboro and driving a McLaren . |
| 29 | Hurriedly I glanced at the year of the film 's release . |
| 30 | I think it 's also worth just bearing in mind that we 're talking about only one percent of the erm of the farmed land i in this county , we 're not talking about banning hunting in in er in Leicestershire , we 're talking about what we 're saying on one percent there are tens of thousand of fields in in this county nothing can change overnight , even if this er motion goes through because the tenants will still have the rights to decide , it 's only when you actually start getting to new tenancy agreements that you will be in a position if you wish , to start to change things and therefore I suppose at the end of erm , at the end of five years you might have a hundred or two hundred fields on which this ban will apply but you will still have tens of thousand of fields on which the , the hunt will still be , the hunts in this county will still be free to , erm , to operate . |