Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] at [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He discovered from Nicholson senior that Nails rarely slept at home and from Nails 's classmates that he went off with a woman on a motor-bike at four o'clock everyday .
2 In the great Victorian cities of Birmingham , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle and Sheffield fewer than one in ten of the population went to church or chapel ; the industrial working classes mostly stayed at home .
3 Throughout the week , Christians also gathered at lunchtime at St. Austin 's church in the city , with the service led by a different denomination each day .
4 However , these two commanders also remained at sea throughout the landings and so had as little idea as Hamilton of what was going forward .
5 Many of his young friends still lived at home under the watchful eyes of their mothers and needed a place to take their mistresses .
6 The pigs the mariners left on the islands probably looked at lot like the ancestral wild boars , and certainly when pink pigs go wild , it 's only a few generations before they 're muscular , nimble and fierce again .
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