Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I explained how I 'd attempted to fire at the Corporal as Kaptan lay on the ground and how the gun had malfunctioned ; it would be more accurate to say I 'd been first to aim but the Corporal had got his shots off first . |
| 2 | That was the psychological moment : but she also remembered another , a turning-point in physical ageing , ‘ when I began to hate to look at myself in the glass . ’ |
| 3 | I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night . |
| 4 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
| 5 | TED AND Callahan and I had agreed to meet at Jocko 's at 8.30 in the morning . |
| 6 | Trammelled by my exhaustive cataloguing of habit , which I had continued to practise at Mr Broadhurst 's insistence , my visual escapades had become fully manageable . |