Example sentences of "i [vb past] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ .
2 The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ?
3 Might , perhaps ; there 's just something ; that 's why I asked at the meeting , but I 'd have to see the letter first , partly to see what 's in it , partly just to see it . ’
4 I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years .
5 I gazed at the devastation from behind a stone horsetrough , lying flat on my face as another explosion sent lumps of metal and cobblestones clattering on to the roofs of the farm buildings .
6 I gazed at the picture of the crocodile pool and all I could think of to say was , did the gallery owner give you a discount because you 're a friend of Robert 's ?
7 The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are .
8 However , that leaves the galleries open to pressure , when they come to the Minister and make points such as that which I made at the beginning of my speech — saying , for instance , that last year the Tate gallery could buy only one work of art .
9 If , bearing in mind the theory of society and superego development so far advanced in this book , we now turn our attention back to the analysis of modern culture outlined in the article from which I quoted so extensively in the chapter before last , we can see that the following remarks , also from that article , take on a much greater significance in the light of the point which I made at the conclusion of the last regarding the lack of a culturally determined latency period among the Australian aborigines :
10 And , on top of that , all the new friends I made at the grammar lived out West , in Greenford or Ealing .
11 As I announced at the end of the trial , I am immediately doing two things .
12 Last year there was at least the argument that high interest rates were about getting inflation down ( a view I disputed at the time ) .
13 I realised at the beginning of 1992 that we were not core and that we were to be disposed of — we had a very difficult year . ’
14 As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’
15 Everyone else I met at the LIBF was welcoming , even when I was humming and hawing over buying singles or two copies of a small number of titles .
16 If I knew that policeman better , the one I met at the bus stop , she thought , I 'd be tempted to tell him , because it tells you how Rose felt about her son .
17 The man and I prodded at the pile of crap on the table .
18 The Corporal and I shouted at the Sergeant to step on it , as the explosions were getting closer .
19 ‘ WHEN I knelt at the spot where Donald died I felt a knot that has been tied up inside me for three years slowly unravel .
20 Like Robinson Crusoe on his island , I trembled at the sight .
21 Having failed dismally with a bicycle pump and an unidentified device that I found at the back of my Dad 's garden shed , I stumbled across what seemed like a promising routine and set aside the whole of Boxing Day to test it out .
22 ‘ Is the candle at Paul 's church connected with the one Julia and I found at the asylum out-house ?
23 For guitars I just used the Jaguar and a Broadcaster-type thing made for , I think , Jerry Donahue , which I found at the studio .
24 I write now as I found at the time .
25 I gaped at the speaker as if she were a mirage .
26 In nineteen ninety S C F began its work providing facilities for prisoner 's families in Crumlin road in Belfast , Norwich prison , Strangeways and here in London 's Holloway prison for women which I visited at the beginning of June .
27 I caught at the word , as I was right to do .
28 All along , as I reported at the time , Sarah had wanted to take her baby with her .
29 I promised at the outset , however , to show that reductive treatment of these features of the mind leads to an incoherent conception of the world , quite independently of the inadequacies of the reductions themselves : that is , even if the reduction of consciousness and thought were not independently flawed , the picture of the world that emerges is incoherent .
30 Trying to ignore this assault on my fundamental antinomies I peered at the train set .
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