Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggest to them at the beginning of each session that they will learn about a different existence from any they may already have experienced . |
| 2 | I smiled to myself at the absurdity of it . |
| 3 | Closing my eyes in the gloom I could still feel Helen in my arms and I smiled to myself at the memory of her bounding healthiness . |
| 4 | I do n't like the idea of Ventolin this is what I said to them at the hospital that I ca n't , cos I 'm not on |
| 5 | I well remember I said to myself at the time , " there is a lad who will go a long way . " |
| 6 | I see now we 've got lots to do this morning , you 're going to need to ignore what 's going on behind me , ah , it 's not happening , right , as I said to you at the very beginning of September I 'm the star , so you pay attention to me . |
| 7 | As he later admitted in an interview with CA Magazine , ‘ I said to someone at the time , I never again want to conduct a debate lasting three years without once being able to raise my voice ’ . |
| 8 | As I wrote to you at the time ( since you refused even then to see me or any of your old friends and supporters ) I accepted the MS as a sacred trust and would do what I could to see that it eventually saw the light of day in the most appropriate form . |
| 9 | She sighed to herself at the boring predictability of it . |
| 10 | And she grinned to herself at the luxury of having someone in her life who would pay attention , who she could talk to . |
| 11 | and I remember doing my first , one of my first essays erm saying that I did n't think they were and all that they were erm was the fact that er er of and you said to me at the end that 's fine as far you 've argued it but I think you 'll change your views as you go on and I do n't know if I have . |
| 12 | Then he said , " Burgess is at home , and I 've asked him to report to you at the mortuary . |
| 13 | If any of your readers has any interesting photographs or stories , I would be glad if they wrote to me at the address below . |
| 14 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
| 15 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 16 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 17 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 18 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
| 19 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 20 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
| 21 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
| 22 | When Adam had a document for Miranda to sign that he thought she might argue about , he always included it in a sheaf of other papers he handed to her at the end of the day , when she was exhausted . |
| 23 | ( Feb 20-Mar 20 ) You should read the forecast for Sagittarius , so much of it applies to you at the moment . |
| 24 | But let me say here that that was just how it looked to me at the time ; that there was a nice logic to it , that Boy 's beginning matched O 's ending , that Boy 's first night was O's last , or it certainly would have been his last if Boy had not fallen into his arms . |
| 25 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |