Example sentences of "i [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The breaches that concern me most at the moment are off the ball incidents , dangerously high tackles and illegal use of the elbow , ’ he added .
2 The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer .
3 It was pink , not red like Hank Marvin 's , which disappointed me rather at the time .
4 Saturday , 13th : Arrived at Delhi airport over two hours late , at 06.30. met me personally at the barrier and eased me through the arrival formalities .
5 If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’
6 and they fetched me down at the hospital
7 Many books which my more ardent academic colleagues ( and I too at the time ) might have cheerfully consigned to the dustbin have been saved by the splendid professional retentiveness of librarians .
8 ‘ I do n't think that is the right thing for me just at the moment .
9 There are one or two old professors here left over from before the liberation ( apparently no profs have been appointed since ) and the professor of English , Prof. Chen Jia , is a charming though deaf old fellow who studied in the U.S.A. , and who used to write books on English literature before the Cultural Revolution put a stop to all that sort of thing — but even so he quoted a bit of Chaucer to me surreptitiously at the dinner table .
10 Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift .
11 A miserably dull , windy and cold Saturday morning beckoned for the last of my Island days and Ewen very kindly had given up his spare time to run me around the Stornoway locality before dropping me off at the airport .
12 She marvelled even more though when Cara 's basic efficiency surfaced as she declared , ‘ By my calculations you 'll still have time to get down to Dover after you 've dropped me off at the airport . ’
13 ‘ We had breakfast and Mummy dropped me off at the playground , ’ Verena told police .
14 Can you drop me off at the apartment on your way home , Sergei ?
15 Dana saw me off at the station .
16 Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak .
17 When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’
18 to switch me off at the flat .
19 I got Bunny out of the pub just before chucking-out time and with a bit of persuasion he agreed to take me as far as Hackney , dropping me off at the end of Stuart Street .
20 Dropped me off at the cross roads and went straight down there to drop off at Newark Road .
21 McLaren 's conviction that Branson wanted revenge , to find a way to seize control of the Pistols for good , ‘ and cut me off at the pass ’ , now became an obsession .
22 I have been encouraged to find that the young are not so predisposed to put me aside at the age of seventy and that a new generation of students and artists regard me as something of a cult figure .
23 I let him pick me up at the Marski .
24 Geoffrey reclined in the front seat , put his famous Panama hat over his eyes , his feet on the dashboard , and said : ‘ Wake me up at the hotel . ’
25 Why do n't you pick me up at the Tech ?
26 ‘ She did say as quickly as possible — Brian will pick me up at the station .
27 You 'll pick me up at the flat as usual on your way into town this evening , Rory ? ’
28 Sam had volunteered to pick me up at the hospital .
29 One of them used to walk round with me up at the market pointing out his bullocks : ‘ These four belong to the policeman ; these four I bought off the publican ; these belong to the baker . ’
30 The following morning saw me back at the surgery in order to collect not only my screwdriver but also the death certificate , duly signed by two doctors ( yes , they had managed to find the mortuary ) , without which I could not obtain a Registration of Death certificate , without which Nigel could not be cremated .
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