Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , he seemed taken aback by their liberalism , which showed concern with the problems of those who failed to pass examinations at school . |
| 2 | I tried to keep despair at bay , telling myself that some sort of mistake had been made . |
| 3 | In the post-war period , although the union confederations tried to limit organisation at plant level ( as being potentially destructive of class consciousness ) , the councils became increasingly significant . |
| 4 | She remembered now why she 'd hated sport at school . |
| 5 | It was Hallowe'en coming up that gave her the idea they 'd had lessons at school about ghosts , witches and Hallowe'en . |
| 6 | Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge . |
| 7 | On the few occasions she 'd spent holidays at home she 'd been a social outcast among her contemporaries . |
| 8 | A number of prominent politicians failed to win election at constituency level but nevertheless entered parliament on their party 's national lists ( where " scrap votes " , i.e. those cast for unsuccessful constituency candidates or county lists , were added together to form a national total ) . |
| 9 | She also found that her driving licence would be handy and she sometimes needed to visit patients at home . |
| 10 | Its history of commerce is believed to be the reason why Ealing — of which Brentford was originally its southernmost part — decided to keep Brentford at arm 's length , thereby retaining to itself , an almost exclusively residential area as Ealing . |
| 11 | I decided when I was 11 and I started doing drama at school , when I came over from New Zealand , that I wanted to be an actress . ’ |
| 12 | I started taking smack at school , 'cos everyone in the — estate at that time was taking it and that was the only place you could buy pot and I sent one of me mates out from school one day to buy some speed and he come back with smack and said this is all I could get and I said I do n't want none of that , but in the end we ended up doing it because we was bored and we had nothing else to do . |
| 13 | Meanwhile she decided to hold Spittals at bay by investigating the dead man 's link with the Polish community in London . |
| 14 | After he was married , he even started making jokes at dinner parties about limp wrists and fairies . |
| 15 | Also , by an indenture of 12th September 1759 , he acquired mining rights at Tilberthwaite from Sir John Pennington . |
| 16 | Paying off the debt meant cutting consumption at home of the few things which were imported and almost anything which might be exported . |
| 17 | ‘ Though , ’ she qualified , ‘ I did enjoy botany at school , and I 'd love to see your ghost orchids . ’ |
| 18 | When Braidwood left the Institution in 1812 to go to the United States , Archibald Geikie was asked to assume direction of the school with his son as an assistant teacher , but he would not assume the responsibility , and resumed teaching Walter at home . |
| 19 | But I am sure that if someone found they liked doing chemistry at school they 're likely to find that they like continuing to do it at university , and vice versa . |
| 20 | The next day she had the whole thing in perspective again , especially after she did find Louise at lunch and told her as much of the story as she could without mentioning Tom Russell . |
| 21 | Aristotle had treated Carthage at length as a Greek polis . |
| 22 | He had heard people at school talking about them . |
| 23 | The fact that the United Kingdom had given assurances at home and at Strasbourg never again to use them appears to have caused no qualms . |
| 24 | Mr Heath moved into Number Ten , Sir Keith Joseph succeeded Dick Crossman at the Department of Health and Social Security ( as Crossman had succeeded Joseph at Housing and Local Government in 1964 ) , and Mrs Thatcher became the third woman since 1944 to assume responsibility for education . |
| 25 | The night-duty man had rung Yashkin at home . |
| 26 | Preparatory schools proliferated to replace tuition at home and to provide a middle-class alternative to the Board Schools following compulsory education in 1870 . |
| 27 | When the locum who had visited Allison at home heard about her multiple miscarriages , she suggested Allison should ask to be referred to the Recurrent Miscarriage Clinic at Pembury Hospital in Kent . |
| 28 | In the past , she had played hostess at dinner parties there . |
| 29 | On Monday there was the English paper — mainly Twelfth Night , which was money for old rope as I had played Feste at school . |
| 30 | They had spent Hogmanay at home , welcoming the groups of people roaming the village as they came round . |