Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These I personally selected at training schools , generally those with " Distinguished " passes . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | I suddenly felt at ease and I 'm just hoping I can stay in the side alongside Alan . ’ |
| 4 | I did n't go back to school after coming out of hospital , I felt that all that potential had gone ; I just stayed at home watching ‘ Rainbow ’ and ‘ Play School ’ . |
| 5 | " I just stopped at home . " |
| 6 | They were a very friendly lot and I soon felt at home . |
| 7 | But nothing I ever heard at home attracts me to literature or the arts . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 10 | Although I was at art school for four years , I was hardly ever there , I always worked at home . |
| 11 | He records : ‘ I quickly felt at home in England . |
| 12 | Mario was always very clear on the subject , and I also talked at length with Peterson during the following year . |
| 13 | On that day , as I slowly followed the trail , I simply felt at home and at peace . |
| 14 | I almost felt at home , secure . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I do n't know why I never drove at home . |
| 17 | I could come out top in my exams then when I never did at school , I never did anything much at school at all . |
| 18 | One of the by-products of contact with Europe was a boom in wine sales , which nearly doubled at home , and a long-overdue improvement in restaurant standards . |
| 19 | I 've been seriously caught out more than once on early ambitious trips — the ice axe which nearly stayed at home was worth its weight in gold . |
| 20 | Mass arrests of UDA chiefs could start within hours of the government ban , which officially began at midnight . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She always felt at home here . |
| 23 | Her massy hair , which she usually plaited at night or at least tied back , was all over the pillow and herself and him , covering his shoulders as well as her own . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She still lived at home , handing the meagre amount of money on which she was supposed to have managed to her mother . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Here was a player who had clean kit for every match , who actually trained at home and , more importantly , scored goals where it mattered — between the posts . |
| 28 | I went round to their place again and we had toast and tea with real cow 's milk , not the Handy Brand condensed milk we always had at home . |
| 29 | and we also looked at acid and carbonate . |
| 30 | ‘ We often played at home . ’ |