Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I felt at home . |
| 2 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 3 | Just to say that the trip worked out slightly cheaper than I anticipated at first and have pleasure in returning a little bit from your cheque . |
| 4 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 5 | I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run . |
| 6 | In fact , I look better now than I did at 20 and I 'm still pretty fit . |
| 7 | ‘ I was given such a very early start in the game and looking back now I think of it as an even more remarkable achievement than I did at the time , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 8 | " Now I feel younger at seventy than I did at sixty . |
| 9 | more through magazines than I did at school , because in school I was taught nothing about pleasure , it was all very biological with a diagram of the male and the female , exactly what happened , there was nothing about er , sexually transmitted diseases , pleasure or abortion , contraception , nothing mentioned , only the mere basics . |
| 10 | Mind you , my elder daughter takes a lot more responsibility for herself than I did at that age . ’ |
| 11 | A big grey house with a ‘ Guests ’ sign stood among trees , so I knocked at the door and asked how to find the holy well . |
| 12 | There was-no sign of a mansion , so I knocked at a cottage door and enquired . |
| 13 | The newsagent 's , alas , was closed , so I looked at a couple of travel posters , then wandered back . |
| 14 | The cover of the directive features a cricketer in full protective kit , so I knew at once I had better find out what it was all about . |
| 15 | Then I met Cully Chatterton and he was very nice to me , so I felt at home here . |
| 16 | That seemed all right , but over dinner Alison began to act oddly — as if she was enjoying herself — so I scowled at her and asked her what the problem was . |
| 17 | I was lucky enough to be offered this house to rent , so I jumped at the chance . |
| 18 | ‘ So I jumped at the chance to join Celtic , a club steeped in tradition and history . |
| 19 | Well I , I would n't mind watching that , yes I , no I would n't I 'd think it 's silly , told you once I saw at the I could n't , this does n't want to stay up this double sided tape . |
| 20 | Once I ran at a fair in the noise |
| 21 | However , I realized if I looked at it underwater , it was bigger . |
| 22 | Jim did say if I looked at mine , and I only have just looked at it er if I 've read the fig if I 've read the figures right and I |
| 23 | If I looked at them all night long , I should n't grow tired of the sight . ’ |
| 24 | After a couple of hours of observing in these conditions , shapes and objects in front of me appeared to move , if I stared at them for too long . |
| 25 | Well if I left at the same time as you he mi he might feel obliged to offer me a lift but if he did |
| 26 | It was only eight-thirty and it did n't seem likely that I 'd go to bed early , if I went at all . |
| 27 | Like if I worked at home on Saturday night , and I worked at home on a Sunday lunch-time it would be really , really busy all the time , and like there 's four areas to cover in and there 's only two areas and I think its too |
| 28 | My boyfriend said he would stay at home and be the househusband and look after the children and do co co , the cleaning and cooking if I stayed at work . |
| 29 | Would you mind terribly if I stayed at home ? ’ |
| 30 | Anyway , I thought if I stayed at Julie 's we could have an early night and I 'd be here in the morning . |