Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there .
2 Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle .
3 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 .
4 He thrust his hands deep into his pockets , hunching his shoulders as he continued , ‘ I met her at the party I threw to celebrate taking over control of the company .
5 ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house .
6 Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls .
7 I got nothing at the table right .
8 " I got mine at the cut price place at the end of the Queenstown Road . "
9 ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’
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 Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions .
12 Before I had really recovered , I found myself at the railway station , where I said goodbye to Dulcie and we went our separate ways , promising to keep in touch , as one does .
13 As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’
14 Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal .
15 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 .
16 I told you at the beginning how it would be .
17 Christ Almighty , I told you at the time , did n't I ?
18 I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in .
19 I identified her at the mortuary not an hour since . ’
20 I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time .
21 I threw myself at the door and tried desperately to open it .
22 I telephoned him at the shipping company , but was told that he was not in the office .
23 ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 .
24 She indicated the pretty flower-patterned basin for me to wash my hands in , then I joined them at the table .
25 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 .
26 Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong .
27 I ordered it at the branch of the Times Library then housed in Elliston and Cavell 's , the nearest equivalent to Harrods in the Oxford of pre-war years , and remember with what excitement I received it from their admirable librarian Miss Lush ( now Lady Ormerod ) at the end of my day 's work in the Bodleian .
28 I sensed it at the funeral .
29 I heard everything at the Opera and Musikverein .
30 I loved him at the beginning and could not hate him later — even when he was agonizing everyone .
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