Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The g was less , and that made me feel at home . |
| 2 | looked after me in Hyderabad , where he and his wife made me feel at home with their warm , relaxing hospitality . |
| 3 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 4 | Mittwoch ( 1990 : 117 ) feels very similar impressions to those described by Cotte : like him , she points out that a sentence such as ( 218a ) seems contradictory whereas ( 218b ) does not : ( 218a ) * She let him stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 5 | A dense fog descended on the field and I found myself isolated at left-half marking the right winger — yes , it was some years ago ! |
| 6 | Later , much later , when I 'd refused at least seventeen attempts to ply me with drink , I found myself sitting at dinner , attempting to charm the ruling monarch 's fourth child . |
| 7 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 8 | I wanted to go with her to the train , but she told me to stay at home otherwise I 'd get lost on the way back . |
| 9 | She 's got some and told her to stay at home . |
| 10 | It seemed he lived at home with his widowed mother and , following a fight with her , he had picked up an axe and killed her . |
| 11 | That 's what they told us to do at school — ask a policeman if we 're lost . |
| 12 | And I never went to hospital because me cousin was a nurse who 'd er you know got married and so she er proffered to nurse me which she did and er the then er health people in allowed me to stay at home because of this you see and I was at home and er that was in nineteen sixteen . |
| 13 | In years she was senior to everyone including the infrequently seen Charlie ; as mother hen to the dancing girls she 'd taken Lucy in and allowed her to feel at home in a matter of hours . |
| 14 | She irritably suppressed the knowledge that Mr Tranter , the editor , allowed her to stay at home on Saturday mornings , ostensibly to work . |
| 15 | ( 218b ) She allowed him to stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 16 | She heard me practising at home one day and said , ‘ This ca n't go on . ’ |
| 17 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 18 | Her mother ( she knew without asking , there was never any possibility of her asking ) expected her to stay at home . |
| 19 | Early in the 1630s Calvert announced his conversion to Catholicism and , though Charles I valued his services and asked him to stay at court , he decided it could only cause trouble if he did so . |
| 20 | Well , fortunately we had someone who kept everything going at home … a nanny who stayed . |
| 21 | Sir Bruce sipped , made a face , and whispered to Agnes : ‘ And I thought we suffered at MoD . |
| 22 | When Caroline was home on holiday from her boarding school , my eyes used to light up when from my place in the choirstalls I saw her arrive at church . |
| 23 | Marjorie was going to take the children to the fair in the afternoon , but Nick persuaded her to stay at home . |
| 24 | Clear sunny day followed upon clear sunny day , and when rain fell it fell at night to scent the dawn with the evocative fragrances of damp lavender and box . |
| 25 | I thought it finished at North , er North Cheams . |
| 26 | What did ya do at school ? |
| 27 | ‘ Why did you realise at Christmas ? ’ she asked , nuzzling her mouth into his warm neck , and thinking it tasted far better than the doughnut she had been dutifully consuming . |
| 28 | Did you stay at hospital after you 'd finished your training ? |
| 29 | What did you do at nursery ? |
| 30 | Otherwise you 'll ask a question like , ‘ What did you do at school ? ’ and he 'll say , ‘ Well , I was planning the Great Train Robbery and I murdered my mother … . ’ |