Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I believe everybody at some point needs support . |
| 32 | I discuss it at some length in Chapter 6 . |
| 33 | ‘ I said pregnancies , because I lost one at four months and another at six months . |
| 34 | 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 ) . |
| 35 | 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 " . |
| 36 | Apart from a superficial , tactile pleasantness , I felt nothing at all . |
| 37 | Well , I meant nothing at all , I assure you . |
| 38 | But even then , before I knew her at all , I sensed that normality was not really Karen 's thing . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | But I knew nothing at all about Tohoku University , or about the city of Sendai . |
| 41 | I knew nothing at all about England , apart from what I had gathered from reading a number of the works of P.G . |
| 42 | I saw her at six the following evening . |
| 43 | I mean I saw her at eleven o'clock at night going jogging with a plastic bag wrapped around her arms . |
| 44 | I saw him at eight o'clock . |
| 45 | I make my living out of explaining things to a lot of dum-dums , and if I do it at all I expect to get paid . ’ |
| 46 | If I do it at half the speed , just do it at thirty miles an hour , how long will that take ? |
| 47 | If I do it at half the speed . |
| 48 | Now if I do it at half that speed , if I do if I drive at thirty miles an hour , how long will it take me to do the sixty miles ? |
| 49 | It is an error to assume , as I did myself at one time , that theory necessarily exists in an ancillary and elucidatory relationship to criticism , which is in turn at the service of literature . |
| 50 | I liked him at first , but … ’ |
| 51 | 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 . ’ |
| 52 | And all I could think about was George , about how I had nothing at all left for George now . |
| 53 | I mean I had nothing at all to do with t' business except I went in partnership with me wife and that . |
| 54 | The truth is I had nothing at all in the bottle — it was empty because I 'd forgotten to get new supplies . |
| 55 | I 've nothing at all to prove . |
| 56 | But I left it at that . |
| 57 | Sleeping in the bed at quarter to two , I left you at two . |
| 58 | I throw myself at this Azadi and we wrestle like children in the mud . |
| 59 | If I snatch your hat from your head with intent to steal it , that is conversion as well as trespass , but if I throw it at another person , that is trespass only , for I am not questioning your title to it . |
| 60 | I wish we at Homegreen House had been visited by a member of the council to explain what could happen if permission for a supermarket to be built is approved . |