Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made my entry at the end of the song . |
| 2 | I have this from her own mouth , for I visited her house at the Falster ferry , at a time when her husband was arrested for a crime . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |
| 4 | I discharged my responsibility at the court , and that is that . |
| 5 | He sat next to me and I wrinkled my nose at the sweaty odour emanating from the long , black , food-stained gown he wore . |
| 6 | We opposed various stages of the Bill , regretting the fact that it did not cover consumer safety ; but , on Third Reading , I committed our party at the Dispatch Box — this was just before an election — to honouring the existence of the Office of Fair Trading and the appointment of John Methven as director general . |
| 7 | I dropped my rope at the base of one of the trees and started to rake , struggling to keep from slipping on the steep slope with its loose pine-needle surface . |
| 8 | I received my mail at the barracks and showered there in the mornings . |
| 9 | I arranged her suicide at the age of twenty-six and I felt that if this was n't ‘ the ’ truth I had certainly approached ‘ a ’ truth . |
| 10 | Erm I did give out a plea about two hours ago that I lost my umbrella at the music festival this weekend . |
| 11 | All these memories are connected incoherently to my mother : the oozing uterine passage closing in on Superman ; the dead man disclosed by nuns [ so pretty and so erotically close to the nightclub ] ; and the sadness of Limelight where , sitting in the dark with her I knew her pleasure at the tale was different to mine , an adult one , beyond me . |
| 12 | I thought I saw his head at the window . |
| 13 | ’ I saw your sister at the funeral , ’ I said . |
| 14 | As I clicked my stopwatch at the start line it began to rain . |
| 15 | Full of beans , I took my seat at the stalled dinner . |
| 16 | I took my place at the top of a walkway between the orchestra , the curtains opened and a lush sigh from the string section led the intro of ‘ Memories ’ . |
| 17 | You will now release me : the resulting implication being that I bought my freedom at the expense of his . |
| 18 | I left my sack at the top of Cairn Lochan and scrambled down to the foot of Savage Slit . |
| 19 | I left my car at the motel . |
| 20 | And then I left my brolly at the chemist 's , and had to go back for it … ’ |