Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pron] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study 's author , Michael Cameron , thinks that roads should be treated like telephone lines or the electricity supply : if customers want to use them at peak times , they should pay more . |
| 2 | Now they want to use them at home . |
| 3 | One rather nice touch : fibre optics are built into the thermal panels behind the ice , so if you want to use it at night it will glow in the dark . |
| 4 | I always seem to get them at dawn , it 's something to do with the stuffiness of this room after I 've been locked in it for a night . |
| 5 | Whilst there are no ‘ free wins ’ to be had in the Premier League ( with the possible exception of Swindon ) the teams we 've beaten have generally been struggling ( exclude Wimbledon from that — but we always seem to thrash them at home ) and those we 've drawn against have been relatively good footballing sides hence the need to comeback after going behind . |
| 6 | ‘ I like having him at home , but I also need a day to myself now and again , just to be able to think my own thoughts . ’ |
| 7 | I remember saying something at home about Watson the gardener . |
| 8 | The fact that he was an outstanding , if not completely graceful athlete , that he played anything with a racquet commendably well — I remember battling him at tennis in the oppressive heat of Guaruja to an 8–8 deadlock before we both gave up to avoid heat prostration — that he is a better than average golfer and could just as well have played football or cricket and enjoyed all sports , made him less exclusively obsessive about racing . |
| 9 | Go to find her at lunch-time , throw my arms round her and promise my never-ending life-long devotion . |
| 10 | Two , he could go along with Marler , pretend to accept him at face value , and this way he could keep an eye on him . |
| 11 | Below : When shooting cichlids they show their colours best when not stressed so try to shoot them at home in their shelters . |
| 12 | Sliding into the warmth he had just left , inhaling the scent of him on the pillows , surrounded by his clothes , books and possessions , she could feel her resolve to keep him at arm 's length ebbing relentlessly away . |
| 13 | An , if we fail to support them at home , we 'll only have ourselves to blame . |
| 14 | ‘ Do make yourself at home , ’ said Sybil hospitably and bustled off into the kitchen . |
| 15 | In Cable v Dallaturca ( 1977 ) 121 SJ 795 , the defendant who deliberately withheld an expert 's report was given leave to call him at trial but was deprived of half the costs of the hearing . |
| 16 | I 've heard her at Christmas time . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've rung her at home and there 's no answer . ’ |
| 18 | You 've caught us at kind of a low point . ’ |
| 19 | But of course the beauty of it is you 've done it at school have n't you ? |
| 20 | And once you 've done it at school , it comes back with a bit of an effort quite quickly . |
| 21 | We 've done it at work |
| 22 | ‘ I 've seen you at work , Shelley . |
| 23 | You 've seen us at work . |
| 24 | We 've got one at work that looks like a tree |
| 25 | I 've got one at work a blank , you should of asked me for it . |
| 26 | So if you 've got one at home you 're committing an offence by being in possession of it . |
| 27 | So if you 've got one at home , you 're committing an offence by being in possession of it . |
| 28 | Well I 've got one at home but |
| 29 | I mean I 've got one at home what . |
| 30 | What my radio , rel radio or , er electric or , I 've got one at home electric or |