Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 2 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 3 | And we saw that in the calculation that I gave you at the end of last week 's lecture . |
| 4 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
| 5 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |
| 6 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 7 | ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 . |
| 8 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 9 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 10 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
| 12 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
| 13 | I , cos I saw her at a quarter past nine so |
| 14 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 15 | Er but I did it at a scale like erm one centimetre for o for every hour it 's blowing in that direction . |
| 16 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 17 | ‘ I was on my way home from New York with my brother Simon after a scouting mission for models when I spotted her at the airport with her father . |
| 18 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 19 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 20 | The question in Hunt 's mind , when I saw him at the beginning of the 1976 season , was whether changing teams and style was going to make a substantial difference in his way of life : in his informality , his private life , his sense of his own personal liberty . |
| 21 | Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’ |
| 22 | Or perhaps I shoved the contents of your safe inside my robe when I saw you at the door . |
| 23 | ‘ When I saw you at the side of the road , it was as if a nightmare had come true . |
| 24 | When I met her at the airport after she flew in to London from Los Angeles recently , I caught my breath when I saw her because she just looked so lovely . |
| 25 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince . |
| 28 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 29 | As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’ |