Example sentences of "[conj] i [be] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I was at art school for four years , I was hardly ever there , I always worked at home . |
| 2 | It was a fight but now that I am at college you can believe I am the happiest girl around here . |
| 3 | Is she really like like isolated now that I 'm at boarding school really |
| 4 | I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley . |
| 5 | ‘ I rather think ’ Mr Nightingale said ‘ that I was at school with your uncle C. A. Harbinger . |
| 6 | I 'm happier at work than I am at home … |
| 7 | So what if I am an even worse footballer now than I was at school . |
| 8 | Then , once I am at home , I usually think the whole of it was splendid , and hate having to settle down to the monotonous , lonely life of a writer . |
| 9 | I feel at ease within myself and I am at peace . |
| 10 | Not while the Captain and I are at war . |
| 11 | For a start , and leaving aside the merits and demerits of PR — on which the NSS and I are at variance — one obvious fact ought to be hammered home . |
| 12 | ‘ Did you know that he and I were at school together ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Rory 's a chap Bootsy and I were at school with , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Will was out somewhere , and I was at home in our lodgings in Bishopsgate . |
| 15 | And I never went to hospital because me cousin was a nurse who 'd er you know got married and so she er proffered to nurse me which she did and er the then er health people in allowed me to stay at home because of this you see and I was at home and er that was in nineteen sixteen . |
| 16 | Then I woke up and I was at home . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , I did n't smoke for the first six months and then I finished work and I was at home |
| 18 | When I was young my father kept an antiques shop where the restaurant is now , so we were n't far from the bookshop ; the two families were on friendly terms and I was at grammar school with the Glynn boys . |
| 19 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
| 20 | I 'd just feel more secure if I was at home . ’ |
| 21 | Well I know that if I was at work . |
| 22 | you 're responsible for mine and if I 'm at work I 'm responsible for yours , I wrote to the D H S S |
| 23 | ‘ I 've told you ; I knew nothing about what had happened until I was at work next morning and one of your policemen came with the news . ’ |
| 24 | Held through the night , he wrote the following morning : ‘ I am treated like I was at home . |
| 25 | Well it did n't , really did n't matter for last night cos I was at school . |
| 26 | I 've met her twice on formal occasions , but I am at work all day , so I do n't often see my neighbours . |
| 27 | I mean , for example , I mean I 'm not saying this is an association but you might find in your dream , if you look to say I 'm back at school , then your association would be but I am at school now , the London School of Economics , do you see what I mean ? |
| 28 | But I was at university in the early '60s , and I could see that even my sister 's generation , 10 years later , was much bolder about this eternal exhausting , juggling compromise of home and work . ’ |
| 29 | I was a student in London but I was at home on this occasion when I met someone in the park . |
| 30 | But I was at home and close to my drugs , and I was most deeply grateful for my escape . |