Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
| 2 | This led me to look at various conventional sorts of murder which could be seen as being idea or perfect murders , with the notion of reversing one of them . |
| 3 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 4 | My natural reserve made me recoil at this blatant approach , as did my total commitment and loyalty to Leslie . |
| 5 | Ben spent so much time playing computer games , barely pausing to eat , that lately I 'd sometimes wondered if he knew I existed at all . |
| 6 | PAUSE I thought I knew at last who you were , why you liked me at school , why you took the trouble to read those poems I 'd written . |
| 7 | So how did I arrive at this mix ? |
| 8 | The Tokay Clos Jebsal 1988 ( £14.25 ) has a raisiny richness and a pure , clean voluptuousness which had me drooling at two recent tastings . |
| 9 | Several times while I was at Magdalen he had me to dine at All Souls with its distinguished Fellows . |