Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 4 | " Now I feel younger at seventy than I did at sixty . |
| 5 | Mind you , my elder daughter takes a lot more responsibility for herself than I did at that age . ’ |
| 6 | In fact , I look better now than I did at 20 and I 'm still pretty fit . |
| 7 | It was only eight-thirty and it did n't seem likely that I 'd go to bed early , if I went at all . |
| 8 | The climb continued by Knarlton hoot to Hudson Quarry , where wild sage was growing thickly amongst the limestone and grass , until I came at last to the rougher pasture below Hazely . |
| 9 | I could partly understand Sally 's comments because I heard at second hand from Jack Mason about the bickering that went on between manufacturers and the players ' agents about contracts . |
| 10 | Is it because I studied in your country — or is it because I studied at all ? ’ |
| 11 | and then there 's me , tell me when it gets to eleven and like I had to go and get a shower and put the dinner all out and all before I left at half four . |
| 12 | When I passed at this point MacArthur said perhaps I would like to hear his summary as a soldier and as no businessman or textile expert . |
| 13 | When I knocked at another door , it was opened by a tall , thin man , with long , dirty hair hanging down to his shoulders . |
| 14 | When I returned at twenty past three |
| 15 | When I left at two o'clock , Tally and I were addressing each other by first names ( ‘ Elliot ’ was strange to him and we settled for ‘ Ellix ’ ) and I was able to address the two waitresses by their first names without feeling uncomfortable . |
| 16 | Actually , he 'd started on that before six and I think he 'd finished when I left at six-fifteen . |
| 17 | When I looked at all this stuff , it came to me that it was very interesting that they thought of Beauty as beautiful and Cruelty as cruel . |
| 18 | When I looked at all this stuff , it came to me that it was very interesting that they thought of beauty as beautiful and cruelty as cruel . |
| 19 | What I found when I looked at this problem over the course of ten years was that this complexity , like responsibility time span , also occurs in leaps or jumps . |
| 20 | Vacancies who arise from five seventeen , had a figure of five seventeen , when I looked at this now , how could y , where did they get the figures from this . |
| 21 | When I started at first erm |
| 22 | I found the church locked when I arrived at four thirty . ’ |
| 23 | Did n't trip over your car in the car park when I arrived at seven this morning . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I gave myself two years to win promotion when I arrived at Ayresome Park last summer . |
| 25 | And when I arrived at this party , she is totally unsubtle and sometimes very rude , you know , and er |
| 26 | The pinky hue of the eastern sky had begun to spill over the giant three centuries old building at the east end of the Square when I called at 7 a.m. sharp to meet him . |
| 27 | As I looked at this mounting pile of equipment I thought that there was no way this was going to fit into the spare bedroom . |
| 28 | Within days it was obvious that the extent of the dissolution was every bit as great as I had at first suspected . |
| 29 | Or was the fact of their friendship with Gideon just an unwelcome coincidence , as I had at first supposed . |
| 30 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |