Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
| 2 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |
| 3 | Two had left so I visited them at home . |
| 4 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
| 5 | I thought I might hit him with it and knock him out , if I did it at just the right moment . |
| 6 | like I said we at least to go on one complex exercise every month which , although they ca n't physically make you go on it there was , you know , they more or less made you go sort of thing pay to do and then we were there the other weekend we had one of these weekends where be more fun , really hard work though it 'll be more fun for |
| 7 | I , cos I saw her at a quarter past nine so |
| 8 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 9 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 10 | Oh right , yes yes the Sweeney it 's quite good it ba , ba , ba with Dennis Waterman , ba , ba , do , ba , ba , ba , ba , ba , ba quick mow that jogger over got him , now we 've got time turn this when we 've done this , erm , put the plants in and everything till I gave it at table tennis |
| 11 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 12 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 13 | But even then , before I knew her at all , I sensed that normality was not really Karen 's thing . |
| 14 | ‘ I was on my way home from New York with my brother Simon after a scouting mission for models when I spotted her at the airport with her father . |
| 15 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 16 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 17 | It was strange , the conversation Dad and I had , because when I saw him at home later and over the next few days he behaved as if it had never happened , as if he had n't told me he 'd fallen in love with someone else . |
| 18 | The question in Hunt 's mind , when I saw him at the beginning of the 1976 season , was whether changing teams and style was going to make a substantial difference in his way of life : in his informality , his private life , his sense of his own personal liberty . |
| 19 | Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’ |
| 20 | Or perhaps I shoved the contents of your safe inside my robe when I saw you at the door . |
| 21 | ‘ When I saw you at the side of the road , it was as if a nightmare had come true . |
| 22 | When I met her at the airport after she flew in to London from Los Angeles recently , I caught my breath when I saw her because she just looked so lovely . |
| 23 | When I met him at Wentworth earlier this week he called for a peaceful Ryder Cup match against the Americans at The Belfry in September . |
| 24 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
| 25 | ‘ When I dropped you at your villa , I went straight to the hospital and told your father I wanted you to come and work for me . ’ |
| 26 | I began to see the nervousness in your eyes whenever I got too close to you , and when I kissed you at the inn I knew that Matilda had lied about one point at least . |
| 27 | ‘ When I left you at Doune there was no word of this . ’ |
| 28 | When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince . |
| 29 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 30 | As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’ |