Example sentences of "i [vb past] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gazed at Caduta warily . |
| 2 | We climbed aboard the transport and as we moved away in convoy I gazed at Francoise from the back of the truck . |
| 3 | I do n't want to even think about the two mistakes I made at Wembley the last time against Spurs . ’ |
| 4 | Oh I li well I , I 've had a lot of moves dear in my time I tell you I , first of all when I first got married I lived at Bishop 's Stortford , then from Bishop 's Stortford I went to erm Stansted in rooms cos I , you know we could n't get a place and from there I had one of my sons oh hello time , eleven o'clock just struck what 's the day ? |
| 5 | Cos she says you would n't lend me none when I lived at Arthur 's , I says no because every time I lent one at our Arthur 's he swore black and blue it were his . |
| 6 | ‘ Madeleine , Mrs Appleby is a person , not just a cook ; and in the days when I lived at Maythorpe House , she was enormously kind to me , ’ Harry said . |
| 7 | No , well he was he I knew him quite well because I lived in at that time when I w was on that T V series , I lived at Pinner . |
| 8 | It looks like the beaded beauty Tumbleweed and I met at Appleby . |
| 9 | I 'll tell you this as I sit in the centre of my maze and listen to the clear song of the thrush : the murderous soul I met at Maubisson was one of the most chilling I have ever encountered . |
| 10 | But the Lord Lane I met at Aviemore could hardly have been more different — affable , witty and without a trace of self awareness of his office ; and if I call him Geoffrey here , it is only because after Aviemore we became friends , played the odd round of golf together , exchanged letters and met on several social occasions . |
| 11 | The fellow I met at Heathrow never spoke . |
| 12 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 13 | I winked at Mrs Patel and to my surprise she winked back . |
| 14 | I winked at Benjamin . |
| 15 | ‘ He says I had the tools , the knowledge , the opportunity and the location , and he looked up those races I rode at Ascot and worked out that I could have had time between the first two and the last to drive to Maidenhead and remove Harry 's car . |
| 16 | Johnston said : ‘ It has not gone anywhere near as well as I expected at Everton . |
| 17 | ‘ What I do know is that the scale of success we could be embarking upon far out-strips anything I experienced at Liverpool . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm now going through what I experienced at Rosyth , except that Eastern Electricity had been privatised three years before I joined whereas the dockyard was contractorised only a month before . ’ |
| 19 | I shouted at Selina for a while and returned to the sofa and my drink . |
| 20 | I disembarked at Dover , cursing Benjamin , the King , the Lord Cardinal , and heartily wishing I was back in Ipswich , free from the baleful influence of the Great Ones of the soil . |
| 21 | Last ti me I dined at Balliol I sat next to the Regius Professor of Chemistry , aged around 193 , who told me about his visit to Egypt before the war , probably the Boer War . |
| 22 | I mean the big ones erm , obviously are the erm , savings of the U S A on telecommunications and freight er , but then there 's lots and lots of things , for instance , the one I mentioned at Minton , two hundred and fifty thousand and so in all of our businesses , you know those , many , many small items . |
| 23 | I remember when I was cycling through Normandy and along the Loire valley a couple of years back , I stopped at Chartres and went into the cathedral . |
| 24 | Other saxifrages I identified at Smeerenburg were nivalis , ceruna , rivularis and the very common cespitosa , the tufted saxifrage . |
| 25 | That was the kind of ‘ special place ’ I secured at Cardiff High School , and my parents paid ten guineas per annum . |
| 26 | I still wake trembling at the-horrors I suffered at Suleiman 's silk-draped , terror-filled court . ) |
| 27 | So , I played this and I taught myself and I had , I played at England and all over for oth , a ladies team , played a on a man 's team and er , the we , the west and that , . |
| 28 | ‘ I studied at Oriel ! ’ he snapped . |
| 29 | At least , that 's what I studied at Oxford . |
| 30 | I studied at Cambridge , then Santiago and Salerno . ’ |