Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I felt at home . |
| 2 | Where I live at present is bounded by two rivers and is quite close to the sea . |
| 3 | Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops . |
| 4 | I always posted two sentries at night , more if the situation warranted it , and Omar or I checked at intervals to make sure they were awake . |
| 5 | ( I am angry over an act of injustice or I wonder at the sight of Niagara Falls or I am pleased with my Christmas present . ) |
| 6 | I think he just figured he would n't do it — he 's in this big rock band and would n't think of doing it , although I think at the time Phil would have ! |
| 7 | Although I work at weekends and evenings , a couple of days on my own with the kids works out just right . |
| 8 | It 's rather like the scene that I penned at the beginning of this column . |
| 9 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |
| 10 | It would be churlish of me not to say how much I welcome that statement , and how much I rejoice in the fact that to add to the four climbdowns that I announced at 4 o'clock , there is a fifth — the abandonment of the proposal announced by the Home Secretary in column 167 of Hansard on 2 July . |
| 11 | The whole process became disheartening and , although I tried various mantras , from words I repeated endlessly to candle flames that I stared at , my thoughts always got the better of me . |
| 12 | I 've a feeling that they might be the same lot that I saw at Geraldine 's party last month . |
| 13 | Whilst I am happy to bolt Spectrum PCBs into metal or plastic cases and generally perform the role of tester I must confess that I balked at performing this simple assembly job . |
| 14 | I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing . |
| 15 | My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality . |
| 16 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
| 17 | So much is now known of the Alpine fold belts , the times and forms of their movements , and so much is now being deduced about the relationship of all this to the theories of plate tectonics , that I marvel at my audacity in saying anything at all at this stage . |
| 18 | I just wanted to tell you that I glanced at your book while cleaning my master 's study ( he is a doctor ) and it has had a terrible effect on me . |
| 19 | But here I am once again running into the kind of difficulty that I noted at the end of my last chapter when I quoted Christine Hugh-Jones ' apposite phrase about the work of the social anthropologist being a matter of sorting out the meaning of a " muddling mass " of detailed data . |
| 20 | If the leaders of Anti-Racist Alliance want to build up an effective anti-racist movement , they should desist from the kind of stupid sectarianism that I witnessed at the recent March for Justice in the London borough of Newham . |
| 21 | Feeling pleased that I had at least negotiated the day 's essentials , and the afternoon being well advanced , I thought it would be good to have a more leisurely look round Wenceslas Square and find somewhere to eat . |
| 22 | I reckoned that I had at least one brigade of white cells on the start line with other brigades available as required . |
| 23 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
| 24 | The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ? |
| 25 | When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre . |
| 26 | He gave me schnapps and insisted that I stay at the hotel the SS man had mentioned . |
| 27 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 28 | Someone from a hostel in London came to see me and said they would have me , so when I went to court in Sheffield the judge decided to put me on bail for four weeks , on condition that I stayed at the hostel and that I did n't drink , and also if I attended the Jules Thorn psychiatric unit , which is part of St Pancras Hospital , for a ten-day assessment . |
| 29 | I can honestly say that I feel at least equal to them , often above them ; and I do n't enter any relations with them that are n't on my terms . |
| 30 | ‘ This is a warning that I flagged at the Council conference two years ago : where is the small firm going to be ? |