Example sentences of "[verb] i at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I persuaded her once or twice to meet me at the ruined tower . |
| 2 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 3 | Even if I did n't have a job that keeps me at the other end of the country for most of the year , this sort of place could n't provide a living . |
| 4 | The agendas for the above 3 meetings will be issued in due course , but it is not intended that the reports should be circulated again ; spare copies of the reports are available for members , by telephoning me at the undernoted extension . |
| 5 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 6 | I would n't get the opportunity to find out who else was calling me at the same time . |
| 7 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 8 | I should have realized that Clive would dump me at the first opportunity , that he had in fact been looking for an excuse to do so . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps you could drop me at the nearest bus stop or railway station , ’ she added . |
| 10 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 11 | Please ring me at the above number and I will meet you in Paris to escort you to the hospital . |
| 12 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 13 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 14 | Friday evening saw me at the National Gallery with her boyfriend and , quite literally , hundreds of other people , to the opening of the annual exhibition , sponsored this year by BP , of the Scottish Artists and Craftsmen . |
| 15 | After his energetic verse Cade 's prose shows that medium at its most laboured and puffy : ‘ Has my sword therefore broke through London gates , that you should leave me at the white Hart in Southwark ? ’ |
| 16 | yes cos you always right , you remind me at the wrong time and the wrong thing |
| 17 | ‘ When I was ten , my Dad bought me a guitar for Christmas , which I 'd asked for , but at the same time he enrolled me at the local golf club ! |
| 18 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 19 | Much to my surprise , Karen greeted me at the front door with a glass of champagne in her hand and , still more unusual , a smile on her face . |
| 20 | But I do n't think I am , because you 're human too , with all the contradictions that implies — hating me at the same time as you want me , for instance . ’ |
| 21 | I feel that the Angel Gabriel will ask me at the pearly gates : Ilsa , did you ever make a good Yorkshire pudding ? |
| 22 | PAMELA : You oblige and improve me at the same time . |
| 23 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |