Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 218b ) She allowed him to stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 4 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Did he sing at home , your dad ? |
| 7 | At no point throughout the weekend did he seem at ease in the new car , his driving lacking the urgent but dramatically effective style seen in the past . |
| 8 | ‘ Did he live at home , Bernice ? ’ |
| 9 | Did he live at home when he was engaged to your sister ? ’ |
| 10 | Interesting that he had married precisely the sort of girl he would have married had he stayed at home . |
| 11 | Unix International spokesman Dave Sandel said he took at face value assurances that USL would honour its commitments to customers . |