Example sentences of "and i [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I bought my first one in 1974 and I had it at least ten years . |
2 | I was half asleep when he showed us up to our rooms , Ward and I sharing one at the rear of the building , which , in place of beds , had a double-tier bunk in the corner . |
3 | Ludo and I hear it at the same moment . |
4 | The chamber had priestly vestments draped on dummies like olden days tailors might have used , and I identified it at once by the basin and marble slab in the corner . |
5 | And I saw none at Ballechin . |
6 | We were driving north and I saw it at once . |
7 | I had what I refer to as the Flower Gentleman come to call on me — I 'm terrible at remembering names — and I liked him at once . |
8 | and I want one at dinner time and one this afternoon . |
9 | So that 's se and I want you at the other end . |
10 | I began to think that I had found a friend , and I answered him at once . |
11 | I consider that she would have found a job by early Autumn and therefore the sum must be more than a , nearly a year 's earnings and I assess it at eight thousand pounds . |
12 | ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 . |
13 | Erm If I 've got sixty miles to do , and I do it at erm do it at sixty miles an hour , it takes me one hour . |
14 | I have grown one and I twist it at the ends ( the moustache too ) . ’ |
15 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
18 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
19 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |