Example sentences of "[vb past] i at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 2 | ‘ She was dynamic , had tremendous energy and was thoroughly decisive , ’ Bramall told me at the launch of a book , The Chiefs , which he has written with Gen Sir William Jackson . |
| 3 | The tailor measured me at the height of the deluge . |
| 4 | We went dancing in discos and an Italian boy , Giacomo , kissed me at the end of a dance . |
| 5 | Freya thanked me at the end of her letter for ‘ taking the time to care about a subject so little understood ’ , which was a sentence I heard often from girls in one way or another , in researching this book . |
| 6 | After one interview in the relatively early days , my mentor , Ron Evans buttonholed me at the end of the programme . |
| 7 | ‘ Easy — a stroke of genius hit me at the height of the bombing , General . |
| 8 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 9 | My first school expelled me at the end of second year . |