Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to tell them at first , but now I just smile and say nuffin' , like Brer Rabbit . ’ |
| 2 | I did n't want to tell her I 'd done nothing at all so I told a sort of white lie — said I was halfway through the first draft . |
| 3 | None of the nurses spoke to me , nothing , till 2 o'clock that afternoon , which I 'd had her at 7.30 in the morning … |
| 4 | I hated seeing myself at first — we all did . |
| 5 | I had never met the head of governors , Dr Arnold Barton , though I had seen him at several functions , a thin , tall , stern-faced , lantern-jawed streak of a man who rarely seemed to smile . |
| 6 | Was I sure I had seen it at all ? |
| 7 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 8 | I had expected it at some point . |