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Example sentences of "the [noun] i [verb] at " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	After more than forty years , strangers now dwelt in the houses I knew at Wood Green .
2	Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television .
3	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 .
4	‘ But I only know the songs I sing at school , ’ I told her warily .
5	As we got into the car I looked at Eva and she smiled at me .
6	In the lavatory I stared at the mirror .
7	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 !
8	This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity .
9	No attempt is made in any of the books I looked at to integrate girls into the world of engineering or technology .
10	I went to the Wicklow Gardens Festival last year and enjoyed it thoroughly ; and the welcome I received at Hunter 's Hotel makes a return visit hard to resist .
11	Now I am studying to get a British qualification to continue the work I did at home .
12	One of the areas I looked at first was the so-called ancillary services — that is cleaning , catering and laundry .
13	I spent that Sunday at Littlehampton ; on the Monday I dined at one of George 's clubs — ’
14	The team I tipped at the start of the season are now moving into overdrive .
15	He does n't like the places I go at weekends .
16	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 .
17	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 .
18	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 . "
19	The cellar I have at least seen , and been in occasionally ; I know all the rooms on the ground floor and the second ; the loft is my domain entirely and home of the Wasp Factory , no less ; but that one room on the first floor I do n't know , I have never even seen inside .
20	Ken , the chemistry I did at school was full of test tubes and horrid smells , has it changed very much ?
21	Of all the packages I looked at , Dr Solomon 's AVTK was easily the best .
22	I really like the group I joined at Morley College in London — it contained a mixture of people and I liked getting to know them .
23	as it was published , she does make allowances , she says some of the statistics I upgraded at the publication of the book
24	All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ .
25	He sighs : ‘ The rights I threw at Lou were n't punches , I was just feeling his face and hoping to line up the target for my lefts . ’
26	Come the day I arrived at Docklands TV at 5.30 pm and went to man the phones till Deborah arrived .
27	‘ And then there was the day I arrived at your home , ’ Adam went on relentlessly .
28	I assume you can not , for already the feelings I had at the time are inscrutable to me , so imbued was I with an electric sense of occasion .
29	Three at the Eucharist I preached at last month .
30	Er right Mary Whitehouse to come we 'll be talking about sex and the Buddha of Suburbia and er whatever else sort of takes her fancy and we are going to liven up the traffic I think at er round about one twenty five and find out what 's happening there .