Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If it turns them off at school it will probably turn them off at university .
2 ‘ When I went to school , I were n't above eight or nine year old and I used to have to go hawking milk , as I told you , before I went to school ; and then I used to take the empty cans to school , bring them home at dinner-time .
3 So you just bring them home at lunchtime or something give him a
4 Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets .
5 The genitors of the children had a recognized standing in relation to their spouses but they visited them only at night and did not take food in the taravad house of their " wives " .
6 Tripoli was reported quiet yesterday , seemingly proving that Col Gaddafi is able to bring out the crowds and send them home at will .
7 Leigh travelled to London to meet the Goldsmiths later in July , but " found them not at home " .
8 She phoned me up at home on a Sunday , asking
9 Well I was gon na say you could 've dropped me off at grandma 's .
10 , six days a week , I mean it 's like this year I mean he 's going to be working , I 'm working as well right up to Christmas Eve , so are you , his gon na have the Christmas Day and they want him back at work on the Boxing Night .
11 I then went to see three other patients and returned to review the child about twenty minutes later to find him totally at peace and asleep , with no evidence of any respiratory problem .
12 It was so difficult to conjure him up at will now , to truly remember what he was like and bring him to life again .
13 Their ‘ great weekend ’ as he put it had come to a highly unsatisfactory end yesterday evening , when he had dropped her off at home , and after seeing her in , had ridden off with scarcely a word .
14 He beat her easily at chess the following week , but when he came again she had been thinking and remembering .
15 The important thing about that Bob is not to accept it just at face value .
16 It is to be suspected that , together with its extensions , it constitutes the nuclear complex of every neurosis , and we may expect to find it actively at work in other regions of mental life .
17 I mean I tried it out at work I show you the this is what they used at work .
18 It were twelve o'clock when you went today , when you dropped me off at work .
19 John Delaney knew now that all along it had been hunting them , that it was still hunting them , waiting for the right moment to pick them off at will , one at a time .
20 No he 's picking you up at night
21 We can bring you back at home or if they insist that you go back in an ambulance , you may , they may not put you back home you know , have you thought of that ?
22 and er , I mean what she saw of Kerry was , she dropped her here at quarter to nine , she picked her up between five and half past and the rest of her she saw around kid , the rest of the time she saw her own kid and er Julia was to have her until she went to school , so I mean how can there be any bond there , which there ca n't , but the mother said herself I had her because it was the done thing so I mean it 's , it 's today in n it do n't you think ?
23 On the day she was taken ill , Rose had a severe headache , which became so bad that she called her doctor , who asked a neurologist to visit her immediately at home .
24 Everyone would know he 'd become Rosa 's suitor , now that he 'd been to the house and paid a call after meeting her secretly at night .
25 He remembered surprising her once at work .
26 ‘ I see he bred a good hater , ’ said Isambard , looking him over at leisure as he held him , and smiling at what he found .
27 We have to pick him up at midday . ’
28 He had seen her briefly at breakfast and she had n't seemed disturbed about anything .
29 I only put it on at night as my herons do n't seem to come in the day .
30 D well yes we can because you can , you can finish it off at home ca n't you ?
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