Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I bought my first one in 1974 and I had it at least ten years . |
| 2 | The chamber had priestly vestments draped on dummies like olden days tailors might have used , and I identified it at once by the basin and marble slab in the corner . |
| 3 | And I saw none at Ballechin . |
| 4 | We were driving north and I saw it at once . |
| 5 | I had what I refer to as the Flower Gentleman come to call on me — I 'm terrible at remembering names — and I liked him at once . |
| 6 | I began to think that I had found a friend , and I answered him at once . |
| 7 | ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 . |
| 8 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 9 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 10 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 11 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
| 13 | But I knew nothing at all about Tohoku University , or about the city of Sendai . |
| 14 | Miss I done it , but I left it at home . |
| 15 | I could have brought her Undry so easily , she thought ; but I left it at Ben Hesketh 's … and then told Adam we should take it to Andernesse … |
| 16 | But I left it at that . |
| 17 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 18 | Er but I did it at a scale like erm one centimetre for o for every hour it 's blowing in that direction . |