Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] i at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 2 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 3 | Well they could address their letters to myself Councillor David Poole or Councillor Stuart Argyle to the Council House erm the suggestion you know er their the thoughts the thoughts on this what er they could er erm help us in our campaign and also about the leaf stem as well if they want to write to me at the Council House suggesting and I mean proper places to where it should go because that 's really up to County Council but er at least if I had some suggestions we can pass them over to the County Council where where it could go . |
| 4 | That 's all that matters to me at the moment . ’ |
| 5 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
| 6 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
| 7 | There were too many strange things happening around me at the time . ’ |
| 8 | Andy has got a job to do and so have I. But if I lose he will be gutted for me at the end and if I lose I will be gutted for him . ’ |
| 9 | Take Nosey and the spare horse , then wait for me at the crossroads . |
| 10 | After that , wait for me at the corner of the street . ’ |
| 11 | Aunt Louise came to me at the end of the summer . |
| 12 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 13 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 14 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
| 15 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 16 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
| 17 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
| 18 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 19 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 20 | I think about Mr Jackson and I get a sort of uncomfortable feeling when I remember he was waiting for me at the house and I did n't come back . |
| 21 | ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 22 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
| 23 | ‘ They 're waiting for me at the station . ’ |
| 24 | The ticket 's waiting for me at the desk . |
| 25 | When I went into town to order my new clothes , Mr Pumblechook was waiting for me at the door of his shop . |
| 26 | This time he was waiting for me at the table . |
| 27 | I ca n't think why it did n't occur to me at the time . |
| 28 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 29 | It was the only vacancy offered to me at the time |
| 30 | I look around me at the massed ranks of Lowestoftians , their vacant faces bearing mute witness to the devastation the town has wrought on their limbic systems . |