Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] 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 | She phoned me up at home on a Sunday , asking |
3 | Well I was gon na say you could 've dropped me off at grandma 's . |
4 | , 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 . |
5 | It was so difficult to conjure him up at will now , to truly remember what he was like and bring him to life again . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I mean I tried it out at work I show you the this is what they used at work . |
8 | It were twelve o'clock when you went today , when you dropped me off at work . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | No he 's picking you up at night |
11 | 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 ? |
12 | ‘ I see he bred a good hater , ’ said Isambard , looking him over at leisure as he held him , and smiling at what he found . |
13 | We have to pick him up at midday . ’ |
14 | I only put it on at night as my herons do n't seem to come in the day . |
15 | D well yes we can because you can , you can finish it off at home ca n't you ? |
16 | cos he filled it in at weekend and I posted it Monday or Tuesday , one of them two |
17 | ‘ Supposed to pick us up at lunchtime and never turned up . |
18 | And as for us , could we ring them up at midnight |
19 | I mean if the fe if the ferries were like early sort of bo got you in at lunch time |
20 | Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’ |
21 | I took your violets home with me and have them in a vase in my room , and Mrs Gracie the housekeeper ( who owns the pug ) takes them out at night as she says they poison the air when one is asleep . |
22 | Deport Peter Schmichael for having an out of date work permit , let Scumtona and Hughes run off to the Cayman Islands for a peaceful life together , Ryans potty training to let him down at home games as well as away , Lee Sharpe to OD on E and think he 's playing for the best team in the country . |
23 | PC required for C Stapleton , funded by ODA — possibility of us buying it back at end of contract , allowing for depreciation . |
24 | ‘ That will take us four hours , getting us in at midnight . |
25 | If you ca n't do this in the shop ask the shopkeeper whether you can try them out at home . |
26 | There are stirrings over in the lesser black-backed colony , the lighthouse monotonously flashes its warning signals , Pauline 's hot soup awaits you back at base — and you all agree : there is nothing quite like shear water ringing . |
27 | I 'll take you on at seine netting . |
28 | With difficulty Shiona resisted the urge to phone him up at home and demand an explanation . |
29 | I think that was quite interesting having it on at midnight exactly . |
30 | I mean , they 're begging 'em you to ke they 're begging you to keep 'em on at school , and yet you ca n't get no help to keep 'em on . |