Example sentences of "i [vb past] [vb pp] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got skunked at Sunset ’ , he said . |
| 2 | But then I got promoted at work and suddenly I had a salary to borrow against . |
| 3 | But it explained the 100-franc note I 'd seen at Ma Scamp 's and , come to think of it , the wad of francs I 'd spotted in Bill Stubbly 's wallet when I met him in the bank . |
| 4 | I put a hand into the language space and drew the briefcase to the front ; and it was of black crocodile skin with gold clasps , as I 'd seen at Nottingham races . |
| 5 | He came and stood beside me and picked out one of the new abstracts I 'd done at home . |
| 6 | Yeah I put all the nurseries , all the placements I 'd done at college an at and the employment . |
| 7 | I packed the Scandinavian jersey I 'd worn at Woodbine into the suitcase just in case it jogged anyone 's memory , and got dressed in dark trousers , open-necked shirt and a short zipped navy jacket with lighter blue bands round waist and wrists . |
| 8 | ‘ I think Chelsea offers me the greater chance of winning something than if I 'd stayed at Carrow Road . |
| 9 | I got better results than if I 'd stayed at school . |
| 10 | If anything , it has even more justified my decision to leave Coventry where I was manager and join Chelsea — I certainly could not have been away for a month if I 'd stayed at Highfield Road . |
| 11 | I wish I 'd stayed at home to clean the oven after all . |
| 12 | It 's like what I said to Tony last night when I got in I said , I feel I could have achieved more if I 'd stayed at home and revised . |
| 13 | Just after I 'd finished at college , I went along to someone 's party and I remember telling this girl who I was chatting up that I played bass . |
| 14 | Like one I 'd had at school . |
| 15 | After the day I 'd had at work . |
| 16 | I was serious about acting in those days , but the hungrier I got the more my resolution sagged , until a guy I 'd known at college talked me into a job with the Defense Department . ’ |
| 17 | I remember names and faces , names I heard called at dawn gatherings in town squares , or by empty fuel pits and anti-tank ditches , or under the light of policemen 's bonfires , or in waiting zones , in train stations , in green fields at night . |
| 18 | Three cups of neat Malibu mixed well with the rose wine and Armagnac I had drunk at supper and I felt garrulous and cheerful , confiding in strangers and telling the story of my life . |
| 19 | Helen asked me to explain what I meant , and listened carefully to the long story of what I had suffered at Gateshead . |
| 20 | The interior was just as I expected from the books I had seen at school . |
| 21 | He had the bogus Red Cross form which I had seen at Amsterdam on his lap . |
| 22 | Bunting and Irish flags made a bright display , still celebrating the bicycle race of weeks earlier , the one I had seen at Mullingar . |
| 23 | The girl I had seen at dinner had seemed likeable in a cold kind of way . |
| 24 | I described the crowning of the goat I had seen at Killorglin . |
| 25 | He picked up one of those brown shiny golf-balls that I had seen at Pike 's and rolled it across the desk to me . |
| 26 | One day , a year or so after I had landed at Heathrow , I was playing football in the playground , chasing the ball over the yard in the way of primary school kids , when a teacher , Mr Wright came up to me . |
| 27 | Given that they had the ‘ weather works ’ that day in the shape of sleet , hail , wind and rain , whilst simultaneously a view of quite a lot of snow on Vesuvius , I was glad that I had stayed at home with a good book . |
| 28 | Manchester City ! ’ he said , continuing the chant which was so like those I had heard at Manchester 's Maine Road ground that I marvelled when he said he had never been to England . |
| 29 | High and very far to the north I could just hear an aeroplane , only the third or fourth I had heard at night since coming to the island . |
| 30 | I felt ashamed of the questions I had asked at Agia Varvara . |