Example sentences of "[coord] i [verb] [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 I was half asleep when he showed us up to our rooms , Ward and I sharing one at the rear of the building , which , in place of beds , had a double-tier bunk in the corner .
3 Ludo and I hear it at the same moment .
4 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 .
5 And I saw none at Ballechin .
6 We were driving north and I saw it at once .
7 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 .
8 and I want one at dinner time and one this afternoon .
9 So that 's se and I want you at the other end .
10 I began to think that I had found a friend , and I answered him at once .
11 I consider that she would have found a job by early Autumn and therefore the sum must be more than a , nearly a year 's earnings and I assess it at eight thousand pounds .
12 ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 .
13 Erm If I 've got sixty miles to do , and I do it at erm do it at sixty miles an hour , it takes me one hour .
14 I have grown one and I twist it at the ends ( the moustache too ) . ’
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions .
18 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 .
19 ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’
20 But I knew nothing at all about Tohoku University , or about the city of Sendai .
21 Miss I done it , but I left it at home .
22 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 …
23 But I left it at that .
24 But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without .
25 I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time .
26 Er but I did it at a scale like erm one centimetre for o for every hour it 's blowing in that direction .
27 But I have nothing at all to complain about .
28 But I have you at my side , Will , and I know we 'll be all right . ‘
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