Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] i [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clothes buying is hardly Yuri 's preferred foreign pastime , though : ‘ When I travel , I prefer to sneak off to look at cars and buy accessories for the ones I have at home — a Volvo , an Audi , a Volkswagen , a Japanese Micro bus — and my favourite , an old Chevrolet . |
| 2 | It was a paeon of praise for the comic I read at the time — a tuppenny coloured one ! |
| 3 | During the time I spent at home I seem to have eaten nothing but apples and , if I am to be believed , an inordinate number of them . |
| 4 | One of the areas I looked at first was the so-called ancillary services — that is cleaning , catering and laundry . |
| 5 | as it was published , she does make allowances , she says some of the statistics I upgraded at the publication of the book |
| 6 | So will I have to upgrade by replacement in order to make use of the software I have at the moment ? |
| 7 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 8 | I am the servant of the cause I have at heart , and you and I , and Harry if need be , are coin to be spent for it . ’ |
| 9 | Er good , from memory of the previous meeting , there , one of the items I recall at er I was left to do was contact the our Education Officer erm namely Keith er to see if er a one day seminar or a one day school or whatever you 'd like to call it , er could be held prior to the , the ballot . |
| 10 | Well it depends how you want to deal with it , I mean erm , this , the , the , the I think it was just my idea last year of , of sort of erm sharing some of the load I think at that point and hoping that someone could perhaps take over , erm , this just says the following should be elected , A , Chair , B , Secretary and C , Treasurer , but erm |
| 11 | There was no regulations , as far a I know , we never had a thing painted or done at all , in any of the places I worked at . |
| 12 | No-one ‘ dropped in ’ on our family the whole of the time I lived at home . |
| 13 | No attempt is made in any of the books I looked at to integrate girls into the world of engineering or technology . |
| 14 | The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are . |
| 15 | Finally , I must correct Mr Marnell 's inaccurate version of a quote I made at committee . |
| 16 | As a follower I marvel at the cunning of the quarry and the pertinacity of the pursuers and often have a sneaking admiration for the ‘ one that got away ’ . |
| 17 | As we got into the car I looked at Eva and she smiled at me . |
| 18 | After more than forty years , strangers now dwelt in the houses I knew at Wood Green . |
| 19 | he , he is n't , he 's a bit , up in the air I think at the moment , he does n't know what he wants to do I do n't think |
| 20 | In the end I did at least as much squirming as Christopher Meadowbrook , and he squirmed a lot . |
| 21 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 22 | ‘ It means ‘ he ground himself into me ’ , as it says in the book I bought at the airport . ’ |
| 23 | In the lavatory I stared at the mirror . |
| 24 | ‘ I got it from a novel I read at school , ’ she said , looking down and shuffling her feet . |
| 25 | For some reason , Thomas ‘ we make music together ’ Carter crossed my mind , so after delivering the keys to the mechanic I stopped at the ticket agency . |
| 26 | And he was looking forward again : " I do n't feel I 've ever got to the point I aim at and I do n't think I ever will , but I would like to feel that I was getting a little nearer to it each time . " |
| 27 | I spent that Sunday at Littlehampton ; on the Monday I dined at one of George 's clubs — ’ |
| 28 | When I wrote a line or two of Lover at the Gate I felt at ease , buoyantly happy , confident . |
| 29 | Three at the Eucharist I preached at last month . |
| 30 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |