Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] i at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 2 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 3 | I look around me at the massed ranks of Lowestoftians , their vacant faces bearing mute witness to the devastation the town has wrought on their limbic systems . |
| 4 | This one leapt on me at the exact moment that Junior unloosened his arms and thrust himself into his father 's crying : ‘ Daddy , Daddy , I like this nice man . |
| 5 | He said : ’ there is no statistical evidence that is known to me at the present time of people who are actually being discharged from the private sector We do not have evidence to bring to you of a substantial number of people who have been discharged against their will from the private sector . ’ |
| 6 | They will rendezvous with me at the Turkish Checkpoint in Nicosia . |
| 7 | He had happened upon me at the crucial moment : I had little idea of who I was or what I was entitled to from life , let alone what it behoved me to contribute . |
| 8 | He will be settling his own sundry bills but I would like the invoice for the room to be directed to me at the above address . |
| 9 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
| 10 | The Frenchman sat opposite me at the large farmhouse table chatting away for all he was worth and after the meal he puffed away at his pipe as if he had n't a care in the world . |