Example sentences of "[vb pp] i at " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had frightened me at first but now I thought the Star Zoo was wonderful . |
| 2 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 3 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 4 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't go to Oxford or Yale but he would have a good education if he had joined me at Birkenhead Institute . ’ |
| 6 | But why should he have considered me at all ? |
| 7 | You 've caught me at a very late lunch . |
| 8 | Then she poured out in detail the humiliation she had recently suffered , and at last she sighed deeply and said , ‘ You 've caught me at my weakest , but I 'm gradually pulling myself together . ’ |
| 9 | Her cheeks , which had been so white the previous evening , now had colour , and instead of sagging with exhaustion she radiated the extraordinary vitality that had so attracted me at our first meeting on the Cutty Sark . |
| 10 | Betty had met me at Bellanoch , whisking me off to a venison dinner at her friend 's at Ford . |
| 11 | You take me away for the weekend and then come back and act as if you 've just met me at a friend 's house for the first time ! |
| 12 | ‘ Well , you 've seen me at my worst . ’ |
| 13 | Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all . |
| 14 | c I think I she 'd seen me at my worst on Friday |
| 15 | You should have phoned me at ten o'clock , I would have picked you up . |
| 16 | Training alone has never bothered me at all , but it 's nice to be able to go down the pub for a good chinwag after a session . ’ |
| 17 | I mean , now he 's got me at his mercy , he 's not going to do what anyone would expect . |
| 18 | God , you 've got me at it . |
| 19 | His lordship , I knew , was willing and eager , but he had helped me at jobs before and his usefulness was impaired by the fact that his hands were always filled with his smoking items and he kept dropping things . |
| 20 | ‘ Now there is one of nature 's gentlemen , ’ someone had told me at Monaco in 1975 when I first met Mario . |
| 21 | ‘ You should have told me at the time ! ’ |
| 22 | And if he 'd have needed me at six he 'd have got me up at five . |
| 23 | His words had n't affected me at all . |
| 24 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 25 | The duty solicitor had contacted me at Surkov 's request . |
| 26 | You should have summoned me at once . ’ |
| 27 | Let me ask you about one particular artist , whose name has actually escaped me at the moment |
| 28 | It had begun to rain , the same sad summer drizzle which had greeted me at Kings Cross . |
| 29 | Eh you know you 've set me at it now , look I 'm as bad as you . |
| 30 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |