Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 2 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 3 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
| 6 | Aunt Louise came to me at the end of the summer . |
| 7 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
| 13 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 14 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 15 | When Adam had a document for Miranda to sign that he thought she might argue about , he always included it in a sheaf of other papers he handed to her at the end of the day , when she was exhausted . |
| 16 | She sighed to herself at the boring predictability of it . |
| 17 | And she grinned to herself at the luxury of having someone in her life who would pay attention , who she could talk to . |
| 18 | I could have had a contract to compare favourably with any offered to anyone at the club . |
| 19 | But let me say here that that was just how it looked to me at the time ; that there was a nice logic to it , that Boy 's beginning matched O 's ending , that Boy 's first night was O's last , or it certainly would have been his last if Boy had not fallen into his arms . |
| 20 | Wycliffe chuckled to himself at the picture he had conjured up . |
| 21 | I smiled to myself at the absurdity of it . |
| 22 | Closing my eyes in the gloom I could still feel Helen in my arms and I smiled to myself at the memory of her bounding healthiness . |
| 23 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 24 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |
| 25 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 26 | As one wag said to me at the time , ‘ Only R is different ’ . |
| 27 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
| 28 | I think that also that said to me at the point that there is , people need to er , be paid attendance because otherwise you deny people the opportunity to be able to stand for council , there , otherwise you are going to end up with those that are either rich or retired as the only people who can attend a council which , and therefore we must remember that and make sure those who want to have the opportunity to participate in local government are actually compensated for their , for their erm , for their work . |
| 29 | and I remember doing my first , one of my first essays erm saying that I did n't think they were and all that they were erm was the fact that er er of and you said to me at the end that 's fine as far you 've argued it but I think you 'll change your views as you go on and I do n't know if I have . |
| 30 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |