Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | Since the Lord Chancellor 's Practice Statement [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 77 the House of Lords has considered itself at liberty to depart from its own previous decisions when it appears right to do so . |
| 3 | Like Han Ch'in that time , when she had almost bettered him at archery … |
| 4 | There are few people who came to know Harold Macmillan who do not have some anecdote about him , and I am fortunate in that having interviewed him at length twice , as well as running into him on a number of other occasions , I have garnered quite a few . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've rung her at home and there 's no answer . ’ |
| 6 | Far from hearing only half-an-hour from Michael Heseltine 's statement on the pit closures , a news network would have carried it at length . |
| 7 | Oh yes , I 've Have you enjoyed yourself at school ? |
| 8 | You 've caught us at kind of a low point . ’ |
| 9 | Wordsworth 's first publications , An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches , appeared in 1793 ; the aim was to bring his name before the public as he felt he had done nothing at university — and , of course , the faint hope of making money . |
| 10 | I have seen you at court . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've seen you at work , Shelley . |
| 12 | I mean , Mike was like , you gon na stay down and I was , I have n't seen anybody at college all week , so I think I 'd better go back , actually . |
| 13 | Two whole sizes bigger than his father Northern Dancer , Nijinsky has matched him at stud . |
| 14 | He 'd met her at work , which was about the only place where he did meet people these days . |
| 15 | Bamber Gascoigne , who had never seen him at work before his show , told me : ‘ He was absolutely wonderful in it . |
| 16 | It 's as if I 'd only seen him at twilight ; and now suddenly I see him at dawn . |
| 17 | A close school friend , Paula Bolwell , 19 , said Sarah had been unhappy when she had visited her at college . |
| 18 | As I recall it had all started about three months ago when Miss Court first joined the group of church helpers but she was more of a helper as we had never seen her at church before . |
| 19 | Children will encounter the Christian Church in the outside world , and will meet with Christianity among their contemporaries as they grow up , even if they have not met it at home . |
| 20 | But of course the beauty of it is you 've done it at school have n't you ? |
| 21 | And once you 've done it at school , it comes back with a bit of an effort quite quickly . |
| 22 | We 've done it at work |
| 23 | They have n't done it at home . |
| 24 | Once children have seen it at work they often suggest ways of adapting it . |
| 25 | As has been mentioned ( Chapter 3 , 3.3.1 ) , because management knows the business ( some of them will usually have operated it at board level ) , the vendors may expect to provide Newco with less warranty and indemnity protection than on an " arm's-length " sale . |
| 26 | Bowyer 's troopers , as professional soldiers are wont , soon made themselves at home in the courtyard and outhouses : within an hour , Sir John was receiving complaints of food being stolen from the kitchen ; jugs of wine mysteriously emptying ; and chickens , full of life the night before , suddenly being killed , plucked and spitted over makeshift fires . |
| 27 | ‘ The Scottish lords have made themselves at home , ’ Agrippa muttered . |
| 28 | You 've seen us at work . |
| 29 | Okay , is n't it interesting , is n't depressing , that absolutely none of these things was taught you at school , except possibly the sport ? |
| 30 | They 've got them at work like that and they were about nearly three hundred pounds new |