Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was another one came in with a little bit of a strain yesterday morning , so what 've done this morning , we 've just had a collective training session and we 've told them to report at quarter to eleven in the morning . |
| 2 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 3 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 4 | If you see prepared hyacinths still on sale , do n't expect them to flower at Christmas — it 's too late . |
| 5 | Some of these girls whose families have come from rural areas in Azad Kashmir or Mirpur feel that their parents allow them to go to school only because in Britain it would be illegal for them to remain at home . |
| 6 | To create an even greater homogeneity we excluded also all those who were doubly incontinent at referral ( since we know that the project found such people very hard to support ; see Chapter Seven ) , and all those whose condition — either mental or physical — was deemed too poor at referral for them to remain at home at all . |
| 7 | Each source contributed to the attempt to understand what dementia sufferers needed in order to help them stay at home . |
| 8 | I needed a job which would enable me to work at home , and be with my family every evening . |
| 9 | Anna had me educated at home as she herself had been and Constanza . |
| 10 | The handicaps are worked out on the results of a trial race and then on all subsequent races everyone starts at minute intervals depending on their previous result . |
| 11 | The same question I asked at city hall , it 's slightly different in that now the council has left two and a half available over the next erm three years given that it is not already taken . |
| 12 | I grin at Dressing-gown and I sing out nice and loud : ‘ Hallo , Tod , how are you ? |
| 13 | Finally , I must correct Mr Marnell 's inaccurate version of a quote I made at committee . |
| 14 | No I mean at centre on Wednesday |
| 15 | well , if you can get on with doing that thing , sit down and look through those magazines with me and I 'll show you the prices that I can get them at retail I mean at trade , all the prices cos I 've got that two and a half thousand gallon job and that is only seventy quid , so I 'm just gon na have one of those , I 'm gon na have that with a U V A filter and eight er eight watt U V A filter which is fifty quid , that then , which is for one of those tanks which is for three hundred and fifty , but that 's not , I 've that 's |
| 16 | Very rarely do I eat at home . |
| 17 | If the development of civil society means in later capitalism , say from the end of the nineteenth century , the flourishing of an independent cultural and aesthetic sphere , then this might , as I argued at length above , be disruptive to the ideal interests , indeed to the very identity , of the bourgeoisie . |
| 18 | When I lived at home my mum was cool about whatever I wore ; her only considerations were practical ones , like insisting I wore ten million jumpers if I went out in the cold . |
| 19 | But I lived at home . ’ |
| 20 | She 's very muddly and disorganized and I can see so clearly where she falls wrong … when I lived at home it was always a bit of a nightmare because I was always trying to get things straight . |
| 21 | No-one ‘ dropped in ’ on our family the whole of the time I lived at home . |
| 22 | I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses . |
| 23 | If it 's like the one we lived in , cos when I , I lived at home with mum and dad we lived in Craigan Road and they 're two rooms . |
| 24 | He said but I sit at night he said when she 's gone to work and he said and help them with their drawings and things they 're doing . |
| 25 | As I sit at home , typing this book into a word processor , I can count over thirty devices around me which contain an integrated circuit of some kind . |
| 26 | Certainly , I 'd never erm , forgiven er people for beatings I got at school . |
| 27 | The ones I grow at home er well they are named . |
| 28 | I can see the coffee houses ordering enormous quantities — if what I tasted at supper yesterday is any guide — ‘ |
| 29 | Well I tried at quarter to nine the day that there there is talking about it and er I was n't allowed on the phone . |
| 30 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |