Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teenager gets older , encounters some nicer , more controlled , more kindly people than he or she ever found at home — most people behave worst in their own homes — and with any luck comes to understand , yes , there is an aspiration or so floating around out there , and , if he , she , has n't seen too many horror movies , been too beaten up in body and mind , regains a little faith in a world at least potentially redeemable . |
| 2 | All that I ever learned at college of philosophy had been a conception of the external world as a colourless and soundless wilderness whose true nature one could never know , which one could not even imagine — but which I did , none the less , imagine as a vast landscape of polar spaces in whose eternal twilight one wandered , preoccupied and deluded by a flicker of magic-lantern pictures which danced inside one 's mind and for ever remained private to oneself . |
| 3 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 4 | But I should not have been sent straight from school to Somerville on Classics ; I wanted to swap to History but did not know enough , so I was encouraged to do P.P.E. I was bored by both Philosophy and Economics so I only worked at Politics ’ . |
| 5 | Erm , we were consulted by the A C C as it were , between committees and had to respond on proposals for giving individual local authorities wider discretions in paying compensation to their employees , erm , the issue here actually summarised quite well in the digest that you already looked at Paper C. The relevant which , at one of which was that the A C C sought powers for local authorities to have a discretione a discretion to award up to an extra , up to fifty two weeks pay in addition to existing statutory requirements . |
| 6 | However , in less prosperous areas the large exactions were , for many , such a burden that they still lived at subsistence level . |
| 7 | She said that it was partly because of drink — that all the Stavangers drank , and that her father knew he was drinking too much , but that he never drank at sea . |
| 8 | He would listen in , showing more powers of concentration than he ever did at work . |
| 9 | Mario was always very clear on the subject , and I also talked at length with Peterson during the following year . |
| 10 | They were a very friendly lot and I soon felt at home . |
| 11 | and we also looked at acid and carbonate . |
| 12 | Normally Peter played at outside-right , but a combination of events led him to have several useful and productive spells at centre-forward , and he also played at inside-right and at outside-left for us . |
| 13 | Not because I actually felt at home with all the ‘ weirdos ’ in there but because the shop really did look like my nan 's house . |
| 14 | I could come out top in my exams then when I never did at school , I never did anything much at school at all . |
| 15 | She went out of the room longing to slam the door as she often did at home , but she did n't dare to here . |
| 16 | He found himself wishing he was at home again , at Polly 's home , and could creep stealthily into the twins ' room and sit there as he sometimes had at night , on the floor among their discarded toys and cuddly animals , with his back to the wall , listening to the sound of their breathing . |