Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
| 2 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |
| 3 | Two had left so I visited them at home . |
| 4 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 5 | As for his invitation — if I catch you at 1997 with him or any other man , I 'll revoke my decision about the wedding night , and take you to bed immediately ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But if I win it at least I will be stopping Ayrton Senna — and that is my way of helping Alain to win the title . ’ |
| 7 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
| 8 | If I take if I take one at night |
| 9 | Wing Commander the Duke of Hamilton replied : ‘ My instructions are to let it run its course as if I know nothing at all about it . |
| 10 | If I snatch your hat from your head with intent to steal it , that is conversion as well as trespass , but if I throw it at another person , that is trespass only , for I am not questioning your title to it . |
| 11 | But if i see you at towards the end of the And the packs are all labelled , it 's very |
| 12 | If I do it at half the speed , just do it at thirty miles an hour , how long will that take ? |
| 13 | If I do it at half the speed . |
| 14 | Now if I do it at half that speed , if I do if I drive at thirty miles an hour , how long will it take me to do the sixty miles ? |
| 15 | I make my living out of explaining things to a lot of dum-dums , and if I do it at all I expect to get paid . ’ |
| 16 | I thought I might hit him with it and knock him out , if I did it at just the right moment . |
| 17 | Wait until I tell them at home ! |
| 18 | ‘ I wo n't know that until I meet her at lunchtime . |
| 19 | like I said we at least to go on one complex exercise every month which , although they ca n't physically make you go on it there was , you know , they more or less made you go sort of thing pay to do and then we were there the other weekend we had one of these weekends where be more fun , really hard work though it 'll be more fun for |
| 20 | I , cos I saw her at a quarter past nine so |
| 21 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 22 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 23 | ‘ I said pregnancies , because I lost one at four months and another at six months . |
| 24 | Oh right , yes yes the Sweeney it 's quite good it ba , ba , ba with Dennis Waterman , ba , ba , do , ba , ba , ba , ba , ba , ba quick mow that jogger over got him , now we 've got time turn this when we 've done this , erm , put the plants in and everything till I gave it at table tennis |
| 25 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 26 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 27 | ‘ You know as well as I that both Benedict and Araminta have every moral right to enjoy whatever she had , while I have none at all . ’ |
| 28 | But even then , before I knew her at all , I sensed that normality was not really Karen 's thing . |
| 29 | ‘ I was on my way home from New York with my brother Simon after a scouting mission for models when I spotted her at the airport with her father . |
| 30 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |