Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel started a kind of evening shift , that you was there with your kids during the day and then your husband got them at night and you come out and worked at nights , so it |
| 2 | ‘ I told them at half-time that Batty was an aggressive player who would challenge hard and that they should n't expect any less — maybe I should have warned them before the start . |
| 3 | She rejected him at birth and it was left to Maria Fountain from the Cotswold Wildlife Park to take on the role of Mother . |
| 4 | He surveyed her at length as he demolished the cake . |
| 5 | And Tommy got one at playgroup and I said what 's her name and he said welly . |
| 6 | Like me , she 'd run right out on all that ‘ old , dull , white stuff ’ they taught you at school and college . |
| 7 | She flung herself at friendship and blurted her thoughts and feelings , jokes and secrets till she had no flora in the lining of her inner spaces to help her absorb her experiences slowly , nutritiously . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ They tried to batter me into taking the job , then rang me at home and tried again . |
| 9 | Cos Rachel rang me at work and said I need your phone number . |
| 10 | The countess , 32 , of Jodrell Road , Bow , east London , had claimed that David Thorburn and Craig Cowen raped her at knifepoint while watching a pornographic video . |
| 11 | Chefs like myself have referred to them and kept them at hand since they were written over 10 years ago , along with books such as Jane Grigson 's on vegetables . |
| 12 | You know they , they ran , they took the nurses , because the nurses home was a mile or , was it a mile or a mile and a half or something from the hospital , they had this , they took them in the morning and then they took them at lunchtime and then all the different shifts coming on and off they took them , and they had the schools run as well . |
| 13 | When his own daughter passed the age of twelve , Salah kept her at school and persuaded the parents of six of her contemporaries to do the same . |
| 14 | ‘ We kept him at home and mollycoddled him , that 's the trouble . |
| 15 | Mr Churchill had nine inch long cigars sent him at Christmas and |
| 16 | Each of these master gangs had ‘ satellites ’ , smaller groups that supported them at need and stayed in the general area . |
| 17 | A quick examination put her at ease but may have done little for her embarrassment ; the culprit was a misplaced liquorice all-sort . |
| 18 | We cleared it at night but you could see the spray smashing up against the cliffs — it was a pretty narrow escape . |
| 19 | I mean you liked it at night but I mean we 've got people right but some Friday nights we 've only got them in that bar . |
| 20 | I liked it at home and did n't want to go away . |
| 21 | I , I liked it at college but I 'm glad I went just one day a week because |
| 22 | She rejoined me at lunchtime and seemed in more optimistic mood . |
| 23 | on now this year to have me mum and dad cos she never had them at Christmas and I thought it 's not fair , you know , she 's the |
| 24 | Anyway the tickets were twenty five pence each , so we all had one at work and you 'd got ta guess |
| 25 | We had it at home as well |
| 26 | And he gave thanks to God for the grace which had been vouchsafed to him , and said to his mother , that he did not think it good to keep the Kings in captivity , but to let them go freely ; and he set them at liberty and bade them depart . |