Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mittwoch ( 1990 : 117 ) feels very similar impressions to those described by Cotte : like him , she points out that a sentence such as ( 218a ) seems contradictory whereas ( 218b ) does not : ( 218a ) * She let him stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 2 | How long has he worked at ffeatherstonehaugh 's , Ellis ? ’ |
| 3 | RISC watcher Andrew Allison remembered FRISC as a merchant chip attempt and says he laughed at Micron months ago when it announced the subsidiary because it did n't have the resources or market presence to pull off a new proprietary architecture . |
| 4 | It seemed he lived at home with his widowed mother and , following a fight with her , he had picked up an axe and killed her . |
| 5 | ( 218b ) She allowed him to stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 6 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 7 | It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length . |
| 8 | No one could make him stay at school . |
| 9 | This applied in particular to the Prior , Father Stephen Bedale , a man of huge stature and extrovert character , and the kind of man who , had he been a layman , might have given the poet a hearty slap on the back in the belief that this would make him feel at home . |
| 10 | Early in the 1630s Calvert announced his conversion to Catholicism and , though Charles I valued his services and asked him to stay at court , he decided it could only cause trouble if he did so . |
| 11 | The left-hander just avoided a caught-and-bowled to Malcolm 's left hand , but when Gooch brought Salisbury on , this time at the Nursery end , and pitching into the legside rough , he spun one right across Salim Malik to have him caught at gully . |
| 12 | Did he sing at home , your dad ? |
| 13 | At no point throughout the weekend did he seem at ease in the new car , his driving lacking the urgent but dramatically effective style seen in the past . |
| 14 | ‘ Did he live at home , Bernice ? ’ |
| 15 | Did he live at home when he was engaged to your sister ? ’ |
| 16 | Well I mean she must have left he keys at home . |
| 17 | Interesting that he had married precisely the sort of girl he would have married had he stayed at home . |
| 18 | Unix International spokesman Dave Sandel said he took at face value assurances that USL would honour its commitments to customers . |
| 19 | What does he do at home ? |
| 20 | Mm what does he wear at work ? |
| 21 | Section 29 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( P. & C.E. Act ) provides that he should be informed at once that he is under arrest if a decision is taken to prevent him leaving at will . |
| 22 | They were happy , I think , that I had found such a good friend , and did everything they could to make him feel at home . |
| 23 | And Jim had some familiar faces around to make him feel at home . |
| 24 | Or some chum of Matt 's put it there to make him feel at home . |
| 25 | When it came to the interview he was somewhat nervous and on the defensive ( not being an old hand at it ) , and while I did my best to make him feel at ease , I felt it incumbent to put questions about the Roman Catholic Church 's teachings on divorce , homosexuality , abortion , celibacy , etc. , the answers to which I believed would be of interest to Catholics and non-Catholics alike . |