Example sentences of "i [vb past] at the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I booked at the Claremont which is , twenty eight pounds . |
| 2 | ‘ When I arrived at the river I was n't at all sure I was doing the right thing because the water temperature was 4.1 degrees Centigrade and the air temperature was 1.8 degrees , ’ said Les . |
| 3 | When I arrived at the school I saw some people who I recognised from the induction days . |
| 4 | One day as I arrived at the palace my horse shied at the sight of a white fragment on the ground . |
| 5 | When I arrived at the counter I asked for Katrina . |
| 6 | As I picked my teeth and smiled to myself , I glanced at the newspaper which had been placed , furled on its stick , beside my plate . |
| 7 | I come to the hurdle which I confessed at the outset I might find difficult to clear : why collect first editions anyway , since the path is so littered with obstructions , difficulties and bibliographical rubbish , and the pilgrimage is often attended with so much expense ? |
| 8 | For I worked at the council they were trying to make a road there then . |
| 9 | The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough . |
| 10 | ‘ I knew at the time it would probably come to nothing , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I looked at the cassette which claimed to be music recorded by the Pinkoe Dirt-Box Band . |
| 12 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 13 | I half got up , then I looked at the hole he 'd gone down and at the paper in my hand . |
| 14 | While there are problems in the class , … when I looked at the programme I could see that problems that are caused because you are not explaining yourself , you are not getting them down to work , they do n't understand what they 're doing . |
| 15 | I looked at the tin she 'd handed me . |
| 16 | And the wallpaper , I looked at the wallpaper I thought , God if I can get a blind like that ! |
| 17 | I thought at the time it was a crazy thing to agree to and early events seemed to confirm this . |
| 18 | and I thought at the time it 's , it 's quite good enough just to have the idea and talk about the idea , make some drawings and |
| 19 | I thought at the time she sounded a bit over anxious to explain why she had n't told us before , but it was n't long before I knew why . ’ |
| 20 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 21 | And B-tested Peter Davidson , a former police inspector , said later : ‘ I thought at the time he 'd had more to drink than me . |
| 22 | From what I learned at the meeting I ca n't see why he thinks I 'm up to such a task , but maybe la bête a ses raisons que la belle ne connaît pas . |
| 23 | erm disappointed , but as I said at the beginning it was almost inevitable , erm with the results of the Westgate by-election , which were very disappointing . |
| 24 | As I said at the beginning I love a challenge and I would put pretty well everything into making sure that Virgin Atlantic is here in twenty years ' time . |
| 25 | As I said at the beginning I think one should be wary about using the word natural , because sometimes people use it you know to promote something you know like on advertising you know it 's natural , must be good for you , but at the same time there are certain things that are natural that are very bad for you like death and if I were to say you know death is natural , nobody would think I was advocating suicide of course not . |
| 26 | Well my Lord as I said as I said at the beginning I think the both Mr and myself considered that it might er assist your Lordship considerably if you have some time now to read er the witness statements and the reports from the expert which are in bundle three and indeed erm . |
| 27 | I said at the time what I thought was right , and I stick all through to what I believe to be right . |
| 28 | I suppose looking back on what I said at the time it was true and I did really love you and I still do but now it 's not sexual or romantic , it was n't sexual then because my mind was too pure and partly because you were such a huge chunk of my life , one seventh , and I think I always will do n't know what that 's su oh it 's love you I suppose for you it must have been such a small thing and at fifteen stroke sixteen you can probably only just remember me I was fourteen actually I was the middle son who was n't properly blond unlike the brothers and hung around near you far too much . |
| 29 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 30 | A lovely lady , Molly Braithwaite , came to teach , and one day as I sat at the back I felt ‘ Surely I could do a little of that gently swinging ’ , picked up a club , and was off ‘ moving with the Medau ’ . |