Example sentences of "[prep] i at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is just the objectivity which is to be claimed in general for the good ; what is good for me now is not necessarily good for you or for me at other times , nor even what I now spontaneously prefer , it is what anyone would spontaneously prefer for me if sufficiently aware from my present viewpoint . |
| 2 | It was too large for me at that time , but over the next twelve months I must have grown considerably because , with wooden blocks fixed on the pedals , I was able to reach it in comparative comfort . |
| 3 | I had about ten staff working for me at that time , all girls and women , supervised by the Senior Clerkess , Emily Lightbody . |
| 4 | ‘ For me at any rate , ‘ I reply . |
| 5 | The combination of purple-red flowers and cream variegated foliage of Buddleia davidii ‘ Harlequin ’ may not suit all tastes but least appealing of all , for me at any rate , is the purple-flowered phlox , also called ‘ Harlequin ’ , whose leaves are generously splashed with cream , a combination which does not work for me . |
| 6 | It 's certainly never anything stronger than that , for me at any rate , but the guests can have what they like . |
| 7 | A parallel pleasure and comfort , for me at any rate , was to watch the Jews . |
| 8 | ‘ We were looking forward to going seven points clear for Christmas but four will do for me at this stage . ’ |
| 9 | The main thing for me at this stage in my career is to be in a well organised team which will help me win the 250 World Championship . |
| 10 | ‘ Every game is a bonus for me at this stage of my career and I 'm enjoying my football . ’ |
| 11 | The sail had been a hindrance , making sport of me at each whim of the wind , so I lowered it . |
| 12 | But I felt dreadful , like a bloated lump with one leg and no hair , so there are n't any photos of me at that time at all . |
| 13 | ‘ I was n't like me at that moment . |
| 14 | I do n't have to go shopping but I was , I was sa knew though cos they were just like me at right age . |
| 15 | I keep a pocket diary with me at all times and a calendar with spaces for writing on by the telephone . |
| 16 | Yamaha SPX-90 MkII and SPX-900 FX units ‘ But the 900 is often out with me at other studios ! ’ |
| 17 | Both my sisters were with me at this kindergarten school . |
| 18 | And it crashed back into me at high speed . |
| 19 | He showed me the location of Bentwaters in the old AA Book of the Road I always carried and then bought the two ounces of Red from me at four times what I 'd agreed to pay for it . |
| 20 | 2.00 : Another Welfare Assistant takes over with R from me at this time . |
| 21 | My letter to your Honour of the fifth January last being writ before the great events that are upon us now , would lead your judgement astray as to our progress in these fair Isles , for mighty Saturn threw his sinister shadow heavy upon me at that juncture and many untoward and grievous events had combined to cloud my spirits that now are light as a summer breeze again . |
| 22 | As he says in his autobiography , ‘ I had to take every race as it came and just try to win it because whatever happened to Niki — and the Ferrari was not relevant to me at that point . |
| 23 | And , and whenever they knew you 've come would you , would you walk through and , and they used to for us every time an tha and that in those days they 'd give you a couple of bob which is , it was a fortune to me at that age . |
| 24 | ‘ David obviously wrote the songs and everything but I felt a lot of responsibility came on to me at that time , although it was nothing like David 's , ’ he says . |
| 25 | It 's not easy to find words for what the two of them meant to me at that time . |
| 26 | It was a heavy leather-bound copy of Don Quixote , dramatically illustrated by a man whose name meant nothing to me at that time , Gustave Doré . |
| 27 | I have to say again I 'm sorry no it it was n't obvious to me at that time definitely not . |
| 28 | There were statements of intent , exhortations , graphs and charts all aimed at producing improvements in what was to me at that time the nebulous concept of ‘ Quality ’ . |
| 29 | She turned to me at one point , after going non-stop for twenty hours , and said : " I just ca n't remember your name " . |
| 30 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |