Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Christ Almighty , I told you at the time , did n't I ? |
| 32 | ‘ I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands . |
| 33 | I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in . |
| 34 | I told you at the beginning how it would be . |
| 35 | I identified her at the mortuary not an hour since . ’ |
| 36 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 37 | I threw myself at the door and tried desperately to open it . |
| 38 | I telephoned him at the shipping company , but was told that he was not in the office . |
| 39 | ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 . |
| 40 | She indicated the pretty flower-patterned basin for me to wash my hands in , then I joined them at the table . |
| 41 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 42 | I began to see the nervousness in your eyes whenever I got too close to you , and when I kissed you at the inn I knew that Matilda had lied about one point at least . |
| 43 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 44 | For a long time , I adored him at a distance and could n't believe my luck when he started showing an interest in me . ’ |
| 45 | I ordered it at the branch of the Times Library then housed in Elliston and Cavell 's , the nearest equivalent to Harrods in the Oxford of pre-war years , and remember with what excitement I received it from their admirable librarian Miss Lush ( now Lady Ormerod ) at the end of my day 's work in the Bodleian . |
| 46 | I sensed it at the funeral . |
| 47 | I heard everything at the Opera and Musikverein . |
| 48 | I loved him at the beginning and could not hate him later — even when he was agonizing everyone . |
| 49 | I warned you at the outset , gentlemen , that my suspicions may be unfounded . |
| 50 | ‘ Well , I warned you at the interview that I was no easy option , did n't I ? ’ he barked . |
| 51 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 52 | I watched him at the bar , a short but fairly broad-shouldered figure with fairish hair . |
| 53 | Hooked is the title of the latest collection of reviews by film critic nonpareil Pauline Kael , ninth in the essential series which began with 1965 I Lost It At The Movies . |
| 54 | I felt nothing at the time and naïvely smiled to myself when I spotted it later . |
| 55 | I insulted him at the time . |
| 56 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 57 | I , cos I saw her at a quarter past nine so |
| 58 | I saw her at the butcher 's this morning . |
| 59 | I saw her at the window when we arrived . |
| 60 | ‘ I saw him at the Jobcentre a lot . |