Example sentences of "i [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 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 | Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water , in which no creature could prosper , and the dockside crowds of welcome floating and swimming above like tropical fish . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | I gazed at the pistons , the steam , the vats and the slopping trays : so much wetness to produce something as dry as paper . |
| 9 | And , on top of that , all the new friends I made at the grammar lived out West , in Greenford or Ealing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 : |
| 13 | Be before we start can I make two quick announcements , one er I made at the last lecture , that is there is a public lecture given by Baroness at five fifteen today on the subject of the Soviet Union and wh where does it go , erm and that 's in . |
| 14 | As I announced at the end of the trial , I am immediately doing two things . |
| 15 | Last year there was at least the argument that high interest rates were about getting inflation down ( a view I disputed at the time ) . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected . |
| 18 | Mr J A Rawson , who I met at the ‘ latter Lee ’ in 1985 , remembered when the fair was on the Baghill site . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I pawed at the hairy form . |
| 23 | I am not a modernist , though I presided at the Arts Council with liberal equanimity over the public funding of much modernist art which I did not understand . |
| 24 | The man and I prodded at the pile of crap on the table . |
| 25 | The Corporal and I shouted at the Sergeant to step on it , as the explosions were getting closer . |
| 26 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 27 | I shouted at the unfortunate Harry . |
| 28 | Heathcliff and Hareton stood at the door , laughing , as I shouted at the dogs and tried to get up . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | Like Robinson Crusoe on his island , I trembled at the sight . |