Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] at [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Railway stations are almost home to me now , I realized , when I eventually arrived at Victoria . |
2 | These I personally selected at training schools , generally those with " Distinguished " passes . |
3 | But I should not have been sent straight from school to Somerville on Classics ; I wanted to swap to History but did not know enough , so I was encouraged to do P.P.E. I was bored by both Philosophy and Economics so I only worked at Politics ’ . |
4 | I suddenly felt at ease and I 'm just hoping I can stay in the side alongside Alan . ’ |
5 | I just laughed at Anwar , as we all did , but no one dared say the one true thing : it was all his own fault . |
6 | I just stared at Santerre 's cheery face . |
7 | I did n't go back to school after coming out of hospital , I felt that all that potential had gone ; I just stayed at home watching ‘ Rainbow ’ and ‘ Play School ’ . |
8 | " I just stopped at home . " |
9 | They were a very friendly lot and I soon felt at home . |
10 | After a seven hour train journey , I finally arrived at Dartington College of Arts . |
11 | But nothing I ever heard at home attracts me to literature or the arts . |
12 | All that I ever learned at college of philosophy had been a conception of the external world as a colourless and soundless wilderness whose true nature one could never know , which one could not even imagine — but which I did , none the less , imagine as a vast landscape of polar spaces in whose eternal twilight one wandered , preoccupied and deluded by a flicker of magic-lantern pictures which danced inside one 's mind and for ever remained private to oneself . |
13 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
14 | Although I was at art school for four years , I was hardly ever there , I always worked at home . |
15 | Though I still argued at parties , defending Sir Stafford Cripps and the Labour Government , no one I met now seemed to be interested : they listened to my opinions because I was pretty , their eyes on the cleavage of my dress . |
16 | He records : ‘ I quickly felt at home in England . |
17 | Mario was always very clear on the subject , and I also talked at length with Peterson during the following year . |
18 | I also stayed at Scarborough where we stayed for two weeks . |
19 | He used some such expression in the text of an unpublished essay that I later found at Harvard . |
20 | On that day , as I slowly followed the trail , I simply felt at home and at peace . |
21 | I then stared at Mandeville and Southgate . |
22 | I almost felt at home , secure . |
23 | Not because I actually felt at home with all the ‘ weirdos ’ in there but because the shop really did look like my nan 's house . |
24 | I do n't know why I never drove at home . |
25 | I could come out top in my exams then when I never did at school , I never did anything much at school at all . |