Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them . |
| 2 | I I played canny at the end rather than |
| 3 | I felt embarrassed at the prospect of meeting him . |
| 4 | The only thing I saw wrong at the time was that David and Tony began not to communicate . |
| 5 | I went scarlet at the word ‘ knickers ’ . |
| 6 | I sat right at the front , my head tilted back as if for a nose-bleed , the stick of my sherbet lolly angled like a thermometer , in a quiet fever of excitement . |
| 7 | I sat late at the window , bland with rage , |
| 8 | Though sometimes interrupted by law work , I sat tight at the story , sometimes writing as much as two chapters a day . |
| 9 | ‘ Jimi was playing in the rain and I stood right at the front of the stage and water dripped right off the tips of his boots onto my head . |