Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] me at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
| 2 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
| 3 | Aunt Louise came to me at the end of the summer . |
| 4 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 5 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 6 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
| 7 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 8 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
| 9 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
| 10 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 11 | The problem started for me at the end of a tough week when we played Leeds on the Sunday , then Everton in the Coca-Cola Cup on the Wednesday and Tottenham on Saturday . |
| 12 | This one leapt on me at the exact moment that Junior unloosened his arms and thrust himself into his father 's crying : ‘ Daddy , Daddy , I like this nice man . |
| 13 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 14 | He seemed a little tense , and looked past me at the bedroom door ; and I was reminded of that first day . |
| 15 | He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped . |
| 16 | But let me say here that that was just how it looked to me at the time ; that there was a nice logic to it , that Boy 's beginning matched O 's ending , that Boy 's first night was O's last , or it certainly would have been his last if Boy had not fallen into his arms . |
| 17 | Form 1A were assigned to Mr R. J. ‘ Bunny ’ Warren for Mathematics and I still have the reports he wrote about me at the time . |
| 18 | As one wag said to me at the time , ‘ Only R is different ’ . |
| 19 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
| 20 | I think that also that said to me at the point that there is , people need to er , be paid attendance because otherwise you deny people the opportunity to be able to stand for council , there , otherwise you are going to end up with those that are either rich or retired as the only people who can attend a council which , and therefore we must remember that and make sure those who want to have the opportunity to participate in local government are actually compensated for their , for their erm , for their work . |
| 21 | and I remember doing my first , one of my first essays erm saying that I did n't think they were and all that they were erm was the fact that er er of and you said to me at the end that 's fine as far you 've argued it but I think you 'll change your views as you go on and I do n't know if I have . |
| 22 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 23 | Yeah but you say to her that they 're always on about how s Shrimpy ca n't do anything for himself , and it 's between Emma , it 's not between it was al even Scott said to me at the beginning oh it 's not between me , it 's nothing to do with me , it 's between Emma and Scott . |
| 24 | If any of your readers has any interesting photographs or stories , I would be glad if they wrote to me at the address below . |
| 25 | I thought she would grow really angry but instead she just pushed past me at the door . |
| 26 | The Frenchman sat opposite me at the large farmhouse table chatting away for all he was worth and after the meal he puffed away at his pipe as if he had n't a care in the world . |