Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	When I married my wife Mary , however , I planned to stay at home for a while .
2	I only remembered it when I leaned forward or when I tried to sleep at night .
3	Now I want to look at pattern knitting with the colour changer .
4	After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment .
5	However , after some time had passed , and I had exhausted the tasks which could usefully be achieved with the implements I happened to have at hand , Miss Kenton was evidently still outside .
6	I like to sleep at night , and applying " scorched earth " tactics in selling OTC stocks to some unsuspecting people makes me cringe .
7	But I like to walk at night .
8	‘ This summer I decided to stay at home and present a jazz/big band summer course , similar to the programme at Appel Farm , having seen the progress made by the pupils in America . ’
9	‘ So there am I spending the rest of that day with you in my thoughts , and getting barely any rest from thoughts of you when I try to sleep at night either . ’
10	I had to stay at home , but Will told me all about it when he came back .
11	For I had to stay at home and look after me farm for .
12	‘ It was n't that , it was the amount of time I have to spend at home … helping with Jennifer , ’ she added .
13	‘ I do n't , but there are things I have to do at home . ’
14	trouble is I have to leave at quarter to eight
15	I refuse to sit at home with my needlepoint , dear .
16	The whole edifice will be known as the ‘ European Union ’ ( a term to note if you want to shine at dinner parties ) .
17	If you want to experiment at home , it 'll cost you far less than in a salon but you should get a friend to help put the rollers in to get perfectly even curls .
18	Right Copse Corner what would you expect to find at Copse Corner ?
19	They married in 1910 and she came to live at West park , where Father was farming with his sister , Hannah .
20	As you know I visited his widow last week and she seemed to hint at pressure coming from two areas : the youth leader Jefferson and Canon Wheeler .
21	are you going to stay at school or go home ?
22	Then someone dragged me along to learn meditation , which I found did most of the things advertised for it — you feel more focused and it reduces the interminable mental chatter that stops you getting to sleep at night .
23	If you decide to exercise at home ( and there are many programmes and routines on tape , in magazines and in books ) remember to start slowly and build up gradually , following the warming-up exercise faithfully at the beginning and end of the programme .
24	Do you have to study at night then ?
25	Once you get in the habit of really noticing what you eat , and expecting from the restaurants the same care for quality and ‘ real food ’ value you try to achieve at home , making the healthy choice becomes second nature .
26	If you prefer to pay at Post Office please use the Transcash payment slip attached .
27	She kept rabbits in a hutch in the back garden behind the rows of cabbages and the clump of rhubarb and did not mind at all that in winter she had to wash at night in a bowl set on a sheet of brown paper in front of the living room fire because there was no heater in the bathroom .
28	‘ Well , she … she told me that you were n't well and she had to stay at home . ’
29	She continued to go at night for his fish and chips , and on return had to submit to the smelling of her breath .
30	Brewing Nescafé on her own gas-ring and buying solitary quarter pounds of cheese for herself ; and painting one wall geranium red and another cornflower blue and the others white , as she wanted to do at home but her mother would not let her .

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