Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I went out at the age of 68 at Drury Lane to celebrate Rory Bremner 's 50 years in showbusiness and I had n't got my pyjamas on , somebody would shout ‘ Where 's your pyjamas ’ ? ’ |
| 2 | When I took over at the Department of Health and Social Security , I was under no illusion about the difficulty of my job . |
| 3 | When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ? |
| 4 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 5 | When I call in at the station , the sergeant says , ‘ Great George Street — riot on ’ . |
| 6 | When I arrived back at the cafe , I found Kathleen in a perplexed mood . |
| 7 | When I arrived back at the Land Rover I met Abdulla , the student teacher , who had been attracted by the breakdown . |
| 8 | I was still brimming with plangency , chockful of feeling , when I arrived back at the hotel . |
| 9 | No doubt about it , I 'm not a badlooking guy when I hang out at the Shakespeare . |
| 10 | Especially when I look around at the bug-eyed gawkers staring , almost hypnotised , at the images . |
| 11 | He was a ‘ chest case ’ for years and when I look back at the photographs of him he 's always trying to look normal but actually his face is pained from trying to breathe . |
| 12 | When I look back at the photographs I think And even when it was long I had , there was one hairdresser there called Paul , whom I 'd go and see regularly . |
| 13 | I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old . |
| 14 | I felt sure that if Mr Reed had lived he would have treated me kindly , and now , as I looked round at the dark furniture and the walls in shadow , I began to fear that his ghost might come back to punish his wife for not keeping her promise . |
| 15 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 16 | Then , as I looked back at the dark , inscrutable carob tree , I did feel a faint touch of fear . |
| 17 | As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona . |
| 18 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |
| 19 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 20 | The guns along the banks of the Orne were still firing as I arrived back at the jeep . |
| 21 | As I pulled in at the ambulance building , the switchboard had just received a message that a dead body had been found in Cathedral Road . |
| 22 | As I pointed out at the beginning of this judgment , the patient 's right of choice exists whether the reasons for making that choice are rational , irrational , unknown or even non-existent . |
| 23 | As I pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , education is on the threshold of a new era , which will have massive repercussions upon the issues of assessment and examination , with some of the proposed developments being viewed with considerably more apprehension than the GCSE was a couple of years ago . |
| 24 | A disgraceful decision , as I pointed out at the time . ’ |