Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Railway stations are almost home to me now , I realized , when I eventually arrived at Victoria . |
| 2 | These I personally selected at training schools , generally those with " Distinguished " passes . |
| 3 | But I should not have been sent straight from school to Somerville on Classics ; I wanted to swap to History but did not know enough , so I was encouraged to do P.P.E. I was bored by both Philosophy and Economics so I only worked at Politics ’ . |
| 4 | I suddenly felt at ease and I 'm just hoping I can stay in the side alongside Alan . ’ |
| 5 | I just laughed at Anwar , as we all did , but no one dared say the one true thing : it was all his own fault . |
| 6 | I just stared at Santerre 's cheery face . |
| 7 | I did n't go back to school after coming out of hospital , I felt that all that potential had gone ; I just stayed at home watching ‘ Rainbow ’ and ‘ Play School ’ . |
| 8 | " I just stopped at home . " |
| 9 | They were a very friendly lot and I soon felt at home . |
| 10 | After a seven hour train journey , I finally arrived at Dartington College of Arts . |
| 11 | But nothing I ever heard at home attracts me to literature or the arts . |
| 12 | All that I ever learned at college of philosophy had been a conception of the external world as a colourless and soundless wilderness whose true nature one could never know , which one could not even imagine — but which I did , none the less , imagine as a vast landscape of polar spaces in whose eternal twilight one wandered , preoccupied and deluded by a flicker of magic-lantern pictures which danced inside one 's mind and for ever remained private to oneself . |
| 13 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 14 | Although I was at art school for four years , I was hardly ever there , I always worked at home . |
| 15 | Though I still argued at parties , defending Sir Stafford Cripps and the Labour Government , no one I met now seemed to be interested : they listened to my opinions because I was pretty , their eyes on the cleavage of my dress . |
| 16 | He records : ‘ I quickly felt at home in England . |
| 17 | Mario was always very clear on the subject , and I also talked at length with Peterson during the following year . |
| 18 | I also stayed at Scarborough where we stayed for two weeks . |
| 19 | He used some such expression in the text of an unpublished essay that I later found at Harvard . |
| 20 | On that day , as I slowly followed the trail , I simply felt at home and at peace . |
| 21 | I then stared at Mandeville and Southgate . |
| 22 | I almost felt at home , secure . |
| 23 | Not because I actually felt at home with all the ‘ weirdos ’ in there but because the shop really did look like my nan 's house . |
| 24 | I do n't know why I never drove at home . |
| 25 | I could come out top in my exams then when I never did at school , I never did anything much at school at all . |
| 26 | She only worked at Pembroke Lodge for four weeks and I hardly set eyes on her . |
| 27 | Trembling a little at this information , she finally arrived at Flintcomb-Ash . |
| 28 | Erm , we were consulted by the A C C as it were , between committees and had to respond on proposals for giving individual local authorities wider discretions in paying compensation to their employees , erm , the issue here actually summarised quite well in the digest that you already looked at Paper C. The relevant which , at one of which was that the A C C sought powers for local authorities to have a discretione a discretion to award up to an extra , up to fifty two weeks pay in addition to existing statutory requirements . |
| 29 | She just stared at Anneliese , her throat constricted . |
| 30 | She always felt at home here . |