Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I met him at one of the numerous receptions . |
| 2 | I found them at last . |
| 3 | Erm what did we do yes , well we went , I , I went to Isobel at what , I found her at three , we had . |
| 4 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
| 5 | I helped her at first but it was a mistake . ’ |
| 6 | Oh dear , I told them at one point why we did , and I 've had it |
| 7 | like I imagined it at all . |
| 8 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 9 | I admired her at first , wanting to help the slaves . |
| 10 | I followed them at all three , but if The Valley was a 100 miles away , I 'd still be back . ’ |
| 11 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 12 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 13 | But even then , before I knew her at all , I sensed that normality was not really Karen 's thing . |
| 14 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 15 | I saw her at six the following evening . |
| 16 | I mean I saw her at eleven o'clock at night going jogging with a plastic bag wrapped around her arms . |
| 17 | I saw him at eight o'clock . |
| 18 | I liked him at first , but … ’ |
| 19 | Her face was straight as she looked at him and she spoke the truth when she answered , ‘ I liked it at first ; it was like a holiday after school , but not so of late . ’ |
| 20 | But I left it at that . |
| 21 | Sleeping in the bed at quarter to two , I left you at two . |
| 22 | I held it at that . |