Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 2 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 3 | However , during the initial discussions I hinted at the desirability of video recording or tape recording their science teaching , to examine their use of questioning . |
| 4 | Trying to ignore this assault on my fundamental antinomies I peered at the train set . |
| 5 | Now I do n't care what people say : at times I look at the child and I am so happy I ca n't sleep at night . |
| 6 | However , at other times I feel at the end of my tether . |
| 7 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 8 | There was a beautiful avenue of mimosas I saw at the Gezira when we were walking round . |
| 9 | ‘ In the very early days I looked at the market and decided one of the things I wanted to do was to build a big PR company because the market suffered from too many small companies . |
| 10 | The issue was never raised again in the remaining five years I stayed at the Department of Health . |
| 11 | All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ . |
| 12 | I assume you can not , for already the feelings I had at the time are inscrutable to me , so imbued was I with an electric sense of occasion . |
| 13 | We do n't want pe I mean we do n't want sales reps agreeing to allocations I mean at the moment we have n't got anybody to administer them it 's being done by groups it 's going to be a nightmare in a big way |
| 14 | And , on top of that , all the new friends I made at the grammar lived out West , in Greenford or Ealing . |
| 15 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
| 16 | It suits the players I have at the moment . ’ |
| 17 | On occasions I looked at the casualty cards myself and identified potential clients that for one reason or another were not referred to me . |
| 18 | But the battles I had at the BBC over The Monocled Mutineer and Tumbledown ! |