Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
| 2 | Oh dear , I told them at one point why we did , and I 've had it |
| 3 | ‘ I said pregnancies , because I lost one at four months and another at six months . |
| 4 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 5 | It is an error to assume , as I did myself at one time , that theory necessarily exists in an ancillary and elucidatory relationship to criticism , which is in turn at the service of literature . |