Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.

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1 Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there .
2 Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle .
3 When I met her at the airport after she flew in to London from Los Angeles recently , I caught my breath when I saw her because she just looked so lovely .
4 He thrust his hands deep into his pockets , hunching his shoulders as he continued , ‘ I met her at the party I threw to celebrate taking over control of the company .
5 I met him at the Labour Club .
6 ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house .
7 I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls .
8 " I got mine at the cut price place at the end of the Queenstown Road . "
9 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 .
10 As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’
11 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 .
12 Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal .
13 Christ Almighty , I told you at the time , did n't I ?
14 I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands .
15 I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in .
16 I told you at the beginning how it would be .
17 I identified her at the mortuary not an hour since . ’
18 I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time .
19 I telephoned him at the shipping company , but was told that he was not in the office .
20 ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 .
21 She indicated the pretty flower-patterned basin for me to wash my hands in , then I joined them at the table .
22 I began to see the nervousness in your eyes whenever I got too close to you , and when I kissed you at the inn I knew that Matilda had lied about one point at least .
23 Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong .
24 I ordered it at the branch of the Times Library then housed in Elliston and Cavell 's , the nearest equivalent to Harrods in the Oxford of pre-war years , and remember with what excitement I received it from their admirable librarian Miss Lush ( now Lady Ormerod ) at the end of my day 's work in the Bodleian .
25 I sensed it at the funeral .
26 I loved him at the beginning and could not hate him later — even when he was agonizing everyone .
27 I warned you at the outset , gentlemen , that my suspicions may be unfounded .
28 ‘ Well , I warned you at the interview that I was no easy option , did n't I ? ’ he barked .
29 Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot .
30 I watched him at the bar , a short but fairly broad-shouldered figure with fairish hair .
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