Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if I left at the same time as you he mi he might feel obliged to offer me a lift but if he did |
| 2 | I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |
| 3 | when I looked at the front page and he said about two paragraphs |
| 4 | Every month I look in your magazine for anything to do with Dalmations and I was overjoyed when I looked at the last page . |
| 5 | When I looked at the broken bundles scattered across the floor , I recognized the faces . |
| 6 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 7 | When I worked at the General , doctor 's who shall be name less used |
| 8 | I found fifteen waiting for me when I arrived at the Awash Station , all thoroughly unhappy at the prospect ahead . |
| 9 | I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 10 | When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch . |
| 11 | The old woman came and silently cleared away , without once looking at me , even when I pointed at the few cakes left and praised them in my stilted Greek ; the hermit master evidently liked silent servants . |
| 12 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 13 | ‘ As I looked at the magnificent vehicle I could not help thinking of the historical ‘ Experiment ’ of the Stockton and Darlington Railway , or of the Exhibition excursions of 1851 , when the GW nailed rough boards across their permanent way trucks at Didcot to accommodate their third class passengers ! |
| 14 | I turned round , half-expecting to hear a giggle , a rather inane giggle ; and then as I looked at the thick shadowy scrub near the gate , and remembered the grim reference to Prospero , a more sinister explanation came to me . |
| 15 | In short , as I said at the very beginning of this series of lectures , you must n't treat what as I say as gospel erm I am perfectly capable of being a little bit eccentric , possibly even a little bit erm original erm in my interpretations . |
| 16 | As I said at the Conservative party conference , I want to make it clear that our policy is colour blind . |
| 17 | I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station . |
| 18 | As I arrived at the recent show of Eileen Cooper 's drawings at the Benjamin Rhodes Gallery after visiting the controversial ( read media-hype ) show , Strange Developments , at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery , I could not help but find great comfort in the sheer generosity of spirit with which these big drawings greet you . |