Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | I had to stay at home , but Will told me all about it when he came back . |
| 7 | For I had to stay at home and look after me farm for . |
| 8 | They married in 1910 and she came to live at West park , where Father was farming with his sister , Hannah . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , she … she told me that you were n't well and she had to stay at home . ’ |
| 12 | She continued to go at night for his fish and chips , and on return had to submit to the smelling of her breath . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She said she 'd realised how tired your parents were becoming and she knew that if she wanted to remain at home on a long-term basis she would have to have some form of respite care . |
| 15 | We agreed to meet at school the following week . |
| 16 | To avoid climbing in the heat of noon we decided to leave at daybreak . |
| 17 | A police spokesman said : ‘ We had to leave at speed because emotions were running so high . ’ |
| 18 | It was horrible , but we were teenage fools and we wanted to sit at home and do big grown-up things . |
| 19 | Mahmoud had a case that morning in the Mixed Tribunals and Owen wanted to send a letter to England so they agreed to meet at noon at the Post Office . |
| 20 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 21 | For two years , they managed to hold at bay a Roman army , with experienced commanders , well-disciplined troops and extensive siege equipment . |
| 22 | He failed to appear at court to answer a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm which allegedly happened in Durham Prison last July . |
| 23 | When he came to work at lunchtime , his first question was : ‘ How goes it ? |
| 24 | Bruce says … he learnt to climb at school … |
| 25 | " Well , " Mr Smith began , a pained expression on his face as he turned to look at Grout again , " if that 's the way you really feel , Steve … " |
| 26 | He had the air of an aristocrat and as he turned to gaze at Blackberry from his great , brown eyes , Hazel began to see himself as a ragged wanderer , leader of a gang of vagabonds . |
| 27 | The others , he paid to stay at home and practise . |
| 28 | The simplest solution would be to raise grants to a civilised level and then to peg them to the movement of wages or prices , but this was not among the options considered by the government when it began to look at student funding . |
| 29 | Jarvis wandered about the world as young people do , but instead of driving a van to India or observing political upheaval in Central America or getting into trouble in Africa he went to look at metro systems . |
| 30 | After being seen whizzing out of the doors of a rink , he had to skate at speed along a footpath of the common , round a spiral pedestrian walkway , on to a road , grab the back of a passing bus , let go , cut across a main road between cars coming in both directions , go across another road — between the wheels of a moving articulated lorry — and end up in a babywear shop , somersaulting into a cot . |