Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] i at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only thirty people were allowed in to see me at one time . |
| 2 | A talkative Bruce Willis dropped me outside the London flat fifteen minutes later ( you can assess the situation on the way upstairs ) , and Kenneth came down to meet me at the door . |
| 3 | Her cheeks , which had been so white the previous evening , now had colour , and instead of sagging with exhaustion she radiated the extraordinary vitality that had so attracted me at our first meeting on the Cutty Sark . |
| 4 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'd better drop me at the hospital . ’ |
| 6 | After I 'd kissed her goodbye I felt pretty happy because not only had I at last had an extremely enjoyable sexual experience , but I 'd also been able to give enjoyment . |
| 7 | This , of course , did not affect me at the time ! |
| 8 | It was an art which did not excite me at all , but there was no way out . |
| 9 | ‘ The fact that in saying that you clearly mean to reassure me , ’ said Lydia , ‘ shows that you do not know me at all well . |
| 10 | Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all . |
| 11 | Sitting in Casey 's office with a group of people sometime in the autumn of 1985 , John McMahon , his deputy , suddenly said : ‘ You wo n't believe what Bud McFarlane just told me at the White House . ’ |
| 12 | You take me away for the weekend and then come back and act as if you 've just met me at a friend 's house for the first time ! |
| 13 | She could not convince me at the time that anything bad could happen , now that I had finally ‘ solved ’ my eating problems , and for a short time I felt jubilant , relieved and ecstatic . |
| 14 | Existentially , they did not touch me at that moment . |
| 15 | But as you can not see me at present with any advantage to yourself , I leave for Tunbridge , my dear , and hope we shall better understand one another on my return . |
| 16 | ‘ Just meet me at 7.00 . ’ |
| 17 | But I was surprised to find that Bessie did not scold me at all . |
| 18 | David Ware , president of the National Association of Estate Agents , said : ‘ It does not surprise me at all to hear estate agents are having problems . |
| 19 | The long lists of ‘ doubles ’ ( usually carp ) that some anglers publish each season do not impress me at all . |
| 20 | You expect me to believe that the board just chose me at random ? |
| 21 | It does not embarrass me at all to say that I did not approve of the principle of the community charge . |
| 22 | ‘ And , ’ she went on , ‘ I was compelled to end my engagement to Havvie when I discovered that he did not love me at all … merely wanted Papa 's dollars , and , worse , despised us , all of us , for being rich and vulgar Yankees . |
| 23 | He accepted my apologies for my appearance and quickly put me at ease , saying he had been a close friend of my father and was delighted to meet his son . |
| 24 | She had a soft voice and always put me at my ease . |
| 25 | I run the search room there , which means that erm people come into Pelham House , they usually meet me at a desk and the end of a telephone , and I put them onto the documents that they want to look at and I make sure that they 're ordered up from where they 're kept in one of the various repositories and strong rooms that we 've got . |
| 26 | That 's right , yes , I run the Search Room there , which means that erm people come in to Pelham House , they usually meet me at a desk on the end of a telephone and I put them onto the documents that they want to look at and I make sure they 're ordered up from where they 're kept in one of the various repositories and strongrooms that we 've got , and then I produce them for them and erm if they need any help reading them and so on I give them that . |
| 27 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 28 | I never suspected a thing , even though my supposed father always kept me at arm 's length . ’ |
| 29 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 30 | Eileen herself is very friendly and down-to-earth and quickly puts me at ease . |