Example sentences of "i [vb past] at the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I knew that policeman better , the one I met at the bus stop , she thought , I 'd be tempted to tell him , because it tells you how Rose felt about her son . |
| 2 | I am not a modernist , though I presided at the Arts Council with liberal equanimity over the public funding of much modernist art which I did not understand . |
| 3 | ‘ Is the candle at Paul 's church connected with the one Julia and I found at the asylum out-house ? |
| 4 | Trying to ignore this assault on my fundamental antinomies I peered at the train set . |
| 5 | On my way back to Sunset I stopped at the press trailer . |
| 6 | For some reason , Thomas ‘ we make music together ’ Carter crossed my mind , so after delivering the keys to the mechanic I stopped at the ticket agency . |
| 7 | I ate at the Corner House , very little , as it was not easy to pay the modest sum my landlady in Southwark , Mrs William Vitou , whose husband was a dental mechanic trained in Guy 's hospital , charged me , and eat a great deal apart from breakfast and a high tea . |
| 8 | The last time I camped at the Forestry Commission site at Beddgelert I recalled — for no good reason , but with an involuntary laugh — a visit with my rotund pal Brian . |
| 9 | I arrived at the Cheshire Cheese early deliberately — to spy out the land … ’ |
| 10 | When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest . |
| 11 | I arrived at the shooting school well before the start , wearing a mackintosh , and with my umbrella up , I took up a position to watch . |
| 12 | But that very Saturday , I arrived at the nut tree , Tesco bag at the ready , to find the ground littered with empty shells and husks . |
| 13 | I taught at the London School of Economics , I was head of the department at the University of Essex in which you were an undergraduate , and was in fact your personal tutor . |
| 14 | Occasionally I glanced at the TV screen that was showing events already taking place . |
| 15 | As I walked towards it , I glanced at the leader board and saw that his client was doing his stuff too — he was two under after five holes . |
| 16 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 17 | The Wheel Tapper pub behind the railway station in Taunton was my haven when I worked at the art college there in the late 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 18 | I worked at the London Palace Hotel as a chambermaid for three years . |
| 19 | Earlies er when I worked at the Ford Motor Company it meant getting from Ilford to Dagenham and starting on a machine at six A M in the morning , in the middle of winter or the middle of summer . |
| 20 | I worked at the Star Club and some other clubs in Hamburg . |
| 21 | I worked at the billeting office until the school reopened . |
| 22 | Having seen him safely in hospital , though not in the best of health myself , I called at the poll tax office and waited one and a half hours in a very smoky atmosphere to have the summons withdrawn . |
| 23 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 24 | I looked at the back seat , where a folder lay . |
| 25 | I looked at the alarm clock . |
| 26 | As soon as I got into my flat I looked at the Supersight club with great care . |
| 27 | I think last time I looked at the hire list , price , price list |
| 28 | First I looked at the contents page ; 19 review , not bad in these recession-stricken times . |
| 29 | I looked at the bedroom door . |
| 30 | ‘ But how do you take out — ’ I looked at the Filofax page and did a quick count — ‘ eight market-makers at once ? ’ |