Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them are directed at girl readers , the assumption seeming to be either that boys have no adolescent problems or that they read only ‘ action ’ books . |
| 2 | ‘ Miss Kenton , I am occupied at present . ’ |
| 3 | However , I am occupied at present . ’ |
| 4 | Afterwards ( another former Lancaster student ) invited me home to tea , and in the evening , and I were entertained at home by |
| 5 | Kay was the name that I was called at home , my middle name , one of my father 's names , and I knew that Kay , the boy in The Snow Queen , was me , who had a lump of ice in her heart . |
| 6 | ‘ Of all the things I was taught at school , this sticks in my mind more that anything , ’ said Christine Cooper when she wrote to tell us of her reaction to an article in MKM. that was last spring when we published a newsletter from Christine Morey telling of her adventures in Romania . |
| 7 | ‘ I was presented at Court in the summer of 1882 , ’ she said quietly . |
| 8 | If I 'd have thought that Mrs Carrow would take it on herself to go down to the beach with little Celia that morning when one of my younger brothers came for me because my mum was ill , well I 'd never have gone , however much I was needed at home . |
| 9 | ‘ Because I was needed at home to do the work . ’ |
| 10 | I was woken at midnight by the cries of hundreds of Lilliputians outside my house . |
| 11 | When I was left at school I was savage at not being let go home ; and when I went home , my mother did nothing but find fault with my schoolboy manners . |
| 12 | I was telephoned at home as soon as it happened and when I arrived everyone was here , police , fire brigade , the gas board and the bomb squad . |
| 13 | You are crowded at home ? ’ |
| 14 | But pathos exists even if you know you 're finished at death in your lifetime , pathos still exists . |
| 15 | she were parked at side of me |
| 16 | And remember , the aim here is not to turn you into a super-mathematician but to accustom you to thinking somewhat differently to the way you were taught at school and thereby to make things easier for yourself . |
| 17 | Now can you remember what you were taught at school , the curriculum ? |
| 18 | " Mattie , who would you choose , if you were compelled at gunpoint to marry tomorrow ? " |
| 19 | Carol Bartz , Sun Microsystems Inc vice-president of worldwide field operations , has jumped ship to become chairman , president and chief executive of Autodesk Inc , Sausalito , replacing Alvar Green : she is succeeded at Sun by Joseph Roebuck who becomes vice-president of worldwide field operations for its Sun Microsystems Computer Corp arm . |
| 20 | Researchers found that on a day when an ‘ insular ’ mother reported having an argument with another adult before she was observed at home with her child , she was more likely to behave unpleasantly towards her child ( Wahler and Graves 1983 ) . |
| 21 | While she was trying to do this , he went to the apartment and beat her , wounding her in the head for which she was treated at hospital . |
| 22 | In New York she was feted at City Hall , had exclusive access to the great airship base at Lakehurst , Commander Rosendahl waiving all restrictions . |
| 23 | Murphy , real name Morpho Ppeleides , was a freak of nature when she was born at Butterfly World in Stockton , Cleveland . |
| 24 | In 1887 she was presented at court and studied art at the Slade School in London in 1893 and in Paris ( 1898–1900 ) . |
| 25 | Educated at home and at a school in Kensington , she was presented at court in 1857 . |
| 26 | She was kept at home a lot . ’ |
| 27 | She was educated at North London Collegiate School and at University College London , which she entered in 1873 . |
| 28 | She was educated at North London Collegiate School and at Girton College , Cambridge , which she entered in 1881 . |
| 29 | Of German , French , and Swiss stock , she was educated at South Hampstead High School and at Newnham College , Cambridge , where , in addition to several scholarships and prizes , she obtained firsts in both parts of the classical tripos ( 1903 and 1904 ) , followed by a research fellowship . |
| 30 | Dorothy Stanton Wise was born deaf at Dover where she was educated at home by her mother who had taken her to see the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton for advice . |