Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [pron] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | many and I 've stopped eating them at Christmas when I brought them and I started eating them again . |
| 2 | The police team had gone from her house , she had managed to avoid seeing them at work by her long session with Gabriel and John Coffin in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 3 | They have a particular appeal , I 'm not sure why — perhaps it 's because I can remember making one at school . |
| 4 | Given the dependence of the industry on charcoal , it was difficult if not impossible for ironmasters to avoid putting themselves at risk , certainly in England , perhaps less so in Ireland . |
| 5 | But Keith really dreads leaving it at school . |
| 6 | For a long time I just could not face wearing them at home . |
| 7 | ‘ I like having him at home , but I also need a day to myself now and again , just to be able to think my own thoughts . ’ |
| 8 | I remember saying something at home about Watson the gardener . |
| 9 | The fact that he was an outstanding , if not completely graceful athlete , that he played anything with a racquet commendably well — I remember battling him at tennis in the oppressive heat of Guaruja to an 8–8 deadlock before we both gave up to avoid heat prostration — that he is a better than average golfer and could just as well have played football or cricket and enjoyed all sports , made him less exclusively obsessive about racing . |
| 10 | Sort of when I first started using it at work |
| 11 | Wexford , Ireland , and was sent to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Paris after no expense had been spared educating him at home . |
| 12 | Taking the moral seriously , however , does not mean taking it at face value and ignoring the potentially ironic and certainly easily seen limitations of morals of the kind just noted . |
| 13 | She also wants him to stop phoning her at home and for him to be banned from entering or trespassing on her property or on the actual road . |
| 14 | avoid putting yourself at risk |
| 15 | We were not feeling at all holy when we went in , having decided that all men were rotters , and fancy leaving us at Christmas for a couple of dames they had only just met ! |
| 16 | For what it 's worth , I merely took the opportunity to discuss a radio-related matter with him when we happened to meet because I 've kept missing him at work these last couple of days . |
| 17 | ‘ I just ca n't imagine telling them at home . |