Example sentences of "i [adv] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I duly arrived at 9.30 am . |
| 2 | I personally spoke at countless gatherings , from twenty suited businessmen at their weekly lunch to 200 noisy schoolchildren packed in a hall . |
| 3 | I only comment at this stage that the latter exclusion would render the remedy of little practical use . |
| 4 | I only play at Snap — |
| 5 | And I suddenly realized at this stage that there was going to be something rather unexpected happening . |
| 6 | Therefore , if I just looked at some of those policy teams that I referred to in my presentation , I would expect , and it 's happening , that we would be taking on board , in each of those policy teams , the policy development work that 's applicable to Europe . |
| 7 | I just looked at this piece of paper in horror and was pounced on . |
| 8 | I just glanced at both your hands earlier on , just glanced , you know , and I seemed to see something quite unexpected written there . |
| 9 | Could I just say at this point , this , this is one area where I would envisage us looking critically at what we 're doing and , and , and , and altering things quite significantly over the next six months . |
| 10 | Can I just say at this point that erm John will happ had a word with the landlady and the landlord of the Reindeer , with regards to this application , and what the landlady told John was that she and her husband would dearly like to do away with the breeze block garage that is there , that is totally out of character , and extend the car park way back to the garages , but the brewery are insisting that they do what is planned here and do away with some of the |
| 11 | Can you stop while I just glance at this . |
| 12 | Can I just look at that ? |
| 13 | Whilst we 're er whilst we 're waiting for her can I just look at that book please ? |
| 14 | I just I I just feel at this stage |
| 15 | That 's why I always win at Trivial Pursuit . |
| 16 | ‘ I feel I know David reasonably well , but the others I hardly know at all . |
| 17 | ‘ And the time when he was ill I hardly remember at all . ’ |
| 18 | A happy working relationship is vital , and Jane and I quickly arrived at joint decisions about the project , choosing the clothes I would wear — light jacket , dark blue shirt and jeans — and deciding against the use of corny props ‘ appropriate ’ to my profession , such as books , a typewriter , or a bottle . |
| 19 | What you should bear in mind of course , is that in the space of a month I probably look at this a couple of thousand times . |
| 20 | I also realised at that time that the future had little meaning for me . |
| 21 | I also spoke at various military and RAF centres to tell men in preparation for the invasion of Burma , about the people of the country . |
| 22 | I also look at other areas such as Persian and Indian miniatures , trecento Italian work , the German Expressionists such as Beckmann . |
| 23 | I also aimed at another thing which people consider Italian I mean a certain squareness and horizontality of outline . |
| 24 | I nearly starved at first because I could n't bear the idea of eating — well — insects and the like , but it 's amazing what you can get used to . ’ |
| 25 | I often ring at this time of the night for a chat , it helps to stop me from going spare . |
| 26 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 27 | I then look at structural and cultural sources of power in organizations . |
| 28 | ‘ If there is one thing I definitely need at this moment , it is a commentary on Italian traffic from a girl from the American midwest . ’ |
| 29 | If that is so , I would then say that by the time you get to the modification stage and the County Council has published a proposal for the general location , I therefore think at that stage the need for the criterion has disappeared , so it may be that the approved policy will not need to contain such criteria . |
| 30 | In Yorkshire when man goes into a decline during his wife 's pregnancy they giggle behind their hands and say he is " carrying " the baby , I never laugh at these remarks because I am convinced I " carried " my son . |