Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I was lucky enough to be offered this house to rent , so I jumped at the chance . |
| 5 | ‘ So I jumped at the chance to join Celtic , a club steeped in tradition and history . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | In any case it would be better if I sat at the table , the light was better there and I should not get lazy . |
| 9 | Like I said at the beginning , Rickenbacker do n't churn designs out lightly ; the Atlantis and Excalibur are the result of careful consideration , and if you 're looking for a guitar that 's not only brimming with personality but is eminently playable in just about any style , I 'd suggest you check this one out , fast … |
| 10 | Yeah cos I got up J C R at eleven o'clock cos I looked at the clock up there . |
| 11 | Cos I looked at the timetable , I looked at the timetable when I , when I caught it over there , |
| 12 | At dinner the two cholerics carried on a huddled conversation while I sat at the end of the row feeling the cutlery might melt in my hands . |
| 13 | In view of our darkened ship I told No.1 to slow down and take any avoiding action while I remained at the radar , not wishing to lose our target . |
| 14 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 15 | ‘ Sir , ’ I said , ‘ I 'd like to give you something to thank you for your kindness to me since I arrived at the palace . |
| 16 | The next problem was how to deliver it , since I sat at the back in English ( our next lesson ) and Belinda sat at the front — which was how I knew that her hair touched her chair ! |
| 17 | I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |
| 18 | When I knocked at the door , Mr Rochester 's old servant , John , opened it and recognized me . |
| 19 | ‘ The problems came when I protested at the removing without consultation of Christmas bonus pay and the halving of overtime paid while accompanying residents on holidays . ’ |
| 20 | Every month I look in your magazine for anything to do with Dalmations and I was overjoyed when I looked at the last page . |
| 21 | Yet when I looked at the bottle , the label told me that the wine had a decidedly non-classic provenance . |
| 22 | Greater Manchester West is my first choice , not Greater Manchester East , and when I looked at the vote in the last contest , back in nineteen eighty eight , when the erm then Alliance , or the ex-Alliance vote was split between the social erm liberal democrats as they were then , and the S D P , and saw the votes I had to beat this time , six thousand nine hundred , I thought I can look good next to that . |
| 23 | But when I looked at the date , my father could only have been about twelve year old you see , when these letters were written so it must have been my grandfather writing to Coventry and Birmingham for parts for the penny farthing bicycles which he worked on . |
| 24 | Erm and when I looked at the figures , we had a greater percentage of institutions and pupils than the other sharer or partner in the process . |
| 25 | When I looked at the broken bundles scattered across the floor , I recognized the faces . |
| 26 | While there are problems in the class , … when I looked at the programme I could see that problems that are caused because you are not explaining yourself , you are not getting them down to work , they do n't understand what they 're doing . |
| 27 | Erm you probably all know Murphy 's law that what can go wrong will go wrong , when I looked at the Oil Service Industry in last year , I rather think that Murphy was a bit of an optimist myself . |
| 28 | ‘ When I looked at the archive material , I was surprised at what the censor passed rather than what was hushed up . |
| 29 | And when I looked at the clock , I was on time and . |
| 30 | when I looked at the front page and he said about two paragraphs |