Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must express my disgust at the Cats Protection League Darlington blacklisting Coundon . |
| 2 | ‘ Not eating Becky 's food I can understand , Goldie , but really — I should think my kitchen at least is kosher enough for you ! ’ |
| 3 | Er I 'll do my conclusion at the en very end if want in my summation . |
| 4 | I 'll leave my handbag at home . |
| 5 | I 'll watch your back at this end , you can count on me . ’ |
| 6 | I 'll give your address at this hotel . |
| 7 | and you think oh well I 'll get my prize at the end . |
| 8 | But I 've promised to go horse-riding , and I 'll try my hand at mini-golf . |
| 9 | ‘ I had to come to terms with the fact that I could lose my baby at any time to a foster mother . |
| 10 | This afternoon — I arrived in Salisbury at around three thirty — when I entered my address in her register as ‘ Darlington Hall ’ , I could see her look at me with some trepidation , assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room . |
| 11 | I 'd estimate his age at around nine months . " |
| 12 | As a child I remember I used to call my mother at home , ‘ mammy up the raw ’ , and grandma was ‘ mammy down the raw' … |
| 13 | If the BBC do n't schedule a repeat , I shall wave my stick at them until they do . |
| 14 | I shall run my bath at seven twenty-five precisely , she decided , and I wo n't even hear him when he calls . |
| 15 | I can change my mind at the last minute if I think the thing is n't watertight . ’ |
| 16 | Erm so I c I could n't buy any of what you were telling me and it 's all like a , it was all a smokescreen I was putting up , the accountant , basically I , I was not erm buying anything er and the compressed funding was just blowing my mind because I could n't understa er it was basically giving me an easy option to say I do n't need to do anything cos I can compress my funding at forty five wo n't I , when my business has taken off . |
| 17 | ‘ I can see you are distressed by the business conducted here , but I can put your mind at rest . |
| 18 | I can understand your outrage at your sister taking your place ; what I do n't see is why you persist in denying your own relationship with Garry . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I can understand your surprise at Mr Drennan askin' for the hand of your daughter . |
| 20 | In fact , I can describe his manner at that moment no better than the way Miss Kenton puts it in her letter ; it was indeed ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |