Example sentences of "at [noun prp] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I 've certainly been very much helped in the time at Sussex when I 've been working part time by the men that I 've worked with |
| 2 | It is winter evenings at Eton that I remember most vividly : talking and arguing about anything and everything with friends in front of a coal fire ; sitting in my armchair with my feet up , reading a story by Buchan , Kipling or Conrad , or something by one of the African big-game hunters whose books I was already collecting . |
| 3 | The train stops at Greenwich and I find myself getting off and starting on the ritual walk , one of a dozen , as before , one of ten , one of eight , one of five … |
| 4 | I thought , and then I happened to go , Jim came to carry the fruit and vegetables for me and when it had opened again , and there was she with this , I looked at Jim and I said ah ! |
| 5 | I 've enjoyed my four years at Widnes but I think a change of clubs will help me get back on the international scene , ’ said Tait , 27 , who has agreed a three-year contract with the Headingley club . |
| 6 | My gorgeous glossy dark locks used to be Mummy 's Delight when I was little , but now it was just wavy like the sea at Brighton and I wore it long with a flyaway fringe — well , it was flyaway if I could stick it solidly enough with gel or spray . |
| 7 | I can now look at Lucker if I want to . |
| 8 | I know how good he is , but it will be some pressure cauldron next Wednesday evening at Windsor and I think Jack will go with the players who have done the job for him before , and once this trial is over and we have qualified : - ) he will experiment and experiment and experiment to his hearts content . |
| 9 | ‘ They are a great bunch of lads at Sunderland and I have n't got it in my mind to pack up . |
| 10 | Do you think , ’ he looked straight at Mandeville and I admired the fellow 's courage , ‘ do you really think , Sir Edmund Mandeville , that the people of these parts do n't know the true reason for your presence here ? |
| 11 | And I looked at Sue and I said you know she 's got twenty jobs erm two cleaning and |
| 12 | Over at Basingstoke and I had a look in the shoe shops , and that , they would be very handy for me erm lace up though |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll need to check out first and then dump some things at Paddington before I go . ’ |
| 14 | One look at Meadowbrook and I knew he was hopeless for us . |
| 15 | He assured the drunken Bowyer that he would always be welcome at Templecombe and I recalled the friendship formed between Pilate and Herod . |
| 16 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 17 | and the other chap that brought it round was very nice and we were talking and she said we worked at Panasonic and I said to him said yes , and I , I said oh I know somebody who works for Panasonic , and she said oh they probably know each other and she told me . |
| 18 | Great big thing like a huge balloon and lived out at Ness and I mind me mother coming and getting us early and this great big thing come over . |
| 19 | and erm she had right go at Tessa cos I see them together sometimes . |
| 20 | I decided to study linguistics at M.I.T. Although I learned a great deal , particularly regarding rigorous methods in linguistics , I must confess that the M.I.T. approach to linguistics was too narrow for my taste , and I found the hothouse atmosphere there somewhat uncomfortable . |
| 21 | I had to promise mum I 'd write to each of them , and apologise in person at the first possible opportunity , and also that I 'd stop off at Lochgair before I returned to Glasgow , to see dad . |
| 22 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 23 | I was asked to turn out at Coventry and I agreed because I 'm a professional player and that 's my job — but I was n't feeling 100 per cent . |
| 24 | ‘ Things went really well for me at Liverpool when I had John Barnes on one side and Ray Houghton on the other . |
| 25 | ‘ He was youth manager at Wimbledon when I held a similar position at Palace . |
| 26 | ‘ I have got the fire in my belly again — that had gone at Wimbledon and I think they knew that . |
| 27 | But I think it 's absolutely clear that if we have , if we have no sort of terminal erm perhaps it is yes to terminal two at Stansted and I do believe that we must talk and think and act competent er Mr has put various the case but , but we are entitled to we represent Hertfordshire people and we must keep more confident er and it 's interests and I believe there is erm , if we do n't do something , somebody else would be doing that , erm and it 's and , and , and I hope that , that er the , will support and I believe that we will be doing erm so there 's a lot more complex work to be done without erm congestion on the M twenty five , although we 've got the work to put our case but at this very early stage be represented at the enquiry to put the evidence , to put the alternatives is absolutely . |
| 28 | God , yesterday I looked at Oliver and I had this strange thought . |
| 29 | I mean the Bradford Dukes always win at Bradford because I 've heard on the grapevine , not from me , that they 've got little bumps round the bends and they fill them in and only the Bradford riders know whereabouts they are , so they skirt round them . |
| 30 | Right erm I would just like to mention that it does n't say here that the A P C have set up er a separate er lobby group erm on which I have the honour to be a member with Patrick er to try and influence the MPs because one of the things which er is coming out and it 's it 's actually shown in paragraph three point three A at the bottom , the questioning whether the demand should be necessarily met or whether in fact , and this links to the government 's present erm reluctance to direct airlines to work from current unused capacity for example at , at erm at Luton and I think that there may well be some pressure put that er we should try and change that . |