Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [noun] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of my course tutors at college . ’ |
| 2 | It sits in pride of place in my sitting room at home and is a timeless reminder of your support and friendship whilst I was editor . |
| 3 | I know my hygiene rules at work , I 've got my du n no what it 's called but it 's a health and hygiene thingey certificate . |
| 4 | On the first day Odd-Knut gave me a tobacco tin of worms and told me to keep them warm , and they have travelled the Arctic inside my second layer of clothing ever since , even sharing my sleeping bag at night-time . |
| 5 | After two years of National Service ( in the R.A.F. ) I began my undergraduate studies at University College London in 1956 . |
| 6 | My practice setup at home is basically just a small Marshall combo and a wah pedal for certain sounds . |
| 7 | I am fifteen I have just come down here in my lunch hour at school but I am having a good time . |
| 8 | I came to believe that Yá2wshu must have been descended from the importunate widow , for he seldom left me alone in those early months , and I was glad to crawl under my mosquito net at night , only to be woken at earliest dawn by my faithful and dutiful friend . |
| 9 | In my biology lessons at school we were told that humans are the only mammals available for sex the whole time . |
| 10 | My phone number at work is 0524 593786 from 10 am — 4 pm except Wednesdays . |
| 11 | Each morning started off with me trying to find enough small change to get something to eat , and gradually , I sold off all my army kit at government surplus stores to finance my drinking . |
| 12 | " I did them in my leather chair at home , while doodling a couple of weeks ago " . |
| 13 | I gave him my butter ration at breakfast one morning in return for her address . |
| 14 | The shop stewards movement , contrary to the arguments from some quarters , would not necessarily be demobilised in a context of incomes policy , but would be able to use its bargaining strength at enterprise level to insist on measures of control over the broader issues of enterprise policy . |
| 15 | Diplomatic sources commented that the government evidently hoped to use its successes at Mavinga to increase its bargaining power at ceasefire negotiations . |
| 16 | Easter is when Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is shown on television and when schoolchildren get a holiday — except when the educational authorities do not have their Easter holidays at Easter . |
| 17 | The only means at the disposal of the unemployed would be to offer their labour services at money wages which were lower than those being commanded by the employed . |
| 18 | DRIVERS should switch off their car telephones at petrol stations because of the risk of explosions . |
| 19 | It advises the reader not to leave their bedroom window at night because all sorts of pitfalls await them ; crocodiles , ghosts , monsters . |
| 20 | Some years ago she had gone to stud , with her colt foal at foot , to be served by a stallion who had been very successful on the race track . |
| 21 | She was in trouble later bullying other kids , getting into fights , knocking down all the garbage cans in an alley , pulling fire alarms in her lunch break at school for the thrill of seeing the fire trucks go by , shoplifting . |
| 22 | The lifeboat is operated by SARA , the Severn Auxilliary Rescue association at Sharpness in Gloucestershire , but thieves who raided their security compound at dawn damaged the boat 's main power unit by cutting fuel and control lines . |
| 23 | There was , in addition , an important prize at stake , the use of the Castilian galley fleet , perhaps the finest in Europe , with which the French , in particular , could give a much-needed boost to their war efforts at sea . |
| 24 | Cases were assigned to areas according to their residence address at diagnosis as defined for the national cancer registration scheme . |
| 25 | The only other colours are provided by a snaking blue-black ribbon of tarmac stitched to the undulations of the terrain by a dotted white centreline and then , over a distant rise , a purple blister that is the far away Ayer 's Rock , famous for its colour changes at sunset . |
| 26 | When early Amstrad computers carry out their self test at boot-up , a message ‘ Please Wait … ’ is put on the screen . |
| 27 | That 's a compact but totally compatible version of the same VHS tape nearly everyone uses in their video recorders at home these days . |
| 28 | Blackpool Corporation had laid the tracks to Squires Gate along the straight Lytham Road by August 1895 , extending beyond the terminus of its conduit tramway at South Shore Station . |
| 29 | She raked round their rubbish heaps at night ; she stole from them — peats from the stacks outside their huts , oats gleaned at night from the fields where they drove her away by day , once a half-grown lamb with a broken leg , that she killed with her knife and carried furtively back to the hut , praying they 'd think an eagle or fox had taken it . |
| 30 | I remember my mother cried towards the end , opening her handbag to take out an embroidered handkerchief so I caught a whiff of ‘ Evening in Paris ’ , whose blue bottle stood on her dressing table at home , its silver trademark of the Eiffel Tower reflected in triplicate . |