Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [noun] " 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 | Day after day many of them sit at desks confined by four walls , their eyes glued to figures , their minds hassled by the problems of business . |
| 8 | Each source contributed to the attempt to understand what dementia sufferers needed in order to help them stay at home . |
| 9 | As none of the Company 's depôts was yet ready , they pleaded that they had nowhere to put them and after discussion , the Corporation agreed to let them remain at Thornton Heath until their own new cars arrived , provided that they were permitted to use them in service on their main line , to compensate for the mileage worked by Corporation cars in Penge . |
| 10 | At the time I was of the same colouring ( there 's a portrait of me hanging at Burpham ) . |
| 11 | I needed a job which would enable me to work at home , and be with my family every evening . |
| 12 | Anna had me educated at home as she herself had been and Constanza . |
| 13 | Waist exercise 1 : keep your legs apart and raise both arms above your head , keeping them bent at 90° . |
| 14 | So was old Jacko , who 'd made me re-write at Thrills piece twice and still did n't run it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The flight 's delayed but only slightly ; I change at Gatwick in breezy sunshine and the 146 touches down on Jersey in relatively balmy conditions . |
| 17 | I change at Baker Street . |
| 18 | I grin at Dressing-gown and I sing out nice and loud : ‘ Hallo , Tod , how are you ? |
| 19 | Although the cobalt-bleomycin complex ( which binds to but does not cleave DNA ) yields good DNase I footprints at GT and GC sites , no footprints are observed within ( AT ) n , suggesting that although the cleavage reaction is efficient , the binding affinity is relatively weak . |
| 20 | I gazed at Caduta warily . |
| 21 | I gazed at Teds and my friend Pam 's cousin Malcolm who had a Tony Curtis and a bootlace tie . |
| 22 | We climbed aboard the transport and as we moved away in convoy I gazed at Francoise from the back of the truck . |
| 23 | They offered at £6.15s.0d. , I countered at £7.5s.0d. , confident of settlement at £7.0s.0d. , their counter was £6.15s.0d. or forget it ! |
| 24 | I do n't want to even think about the two mistakes I made at Wembley the last time against Spurs . ’ |
| 25 | Finally , I must correct Mr Marnell 's inaccurate version of a quote I made at committee . |
| 26 | No I mean at centre on Wednesday |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | Very rarely do I eat at home . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |