Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] at [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 These I personally selected at training schools , generally those with " Distinguished " passes .
2 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 ’ .
3 I suddenly felt at ease and I 'm just hoping I can stay in the side alongside Alan . ’
4 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 ’ .
5 " I just stopped at home . "
6 They were a very friendly lot and I soon felt at home .
7 But nothing I ever heard at home attracts me to literature or the arts .
8 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 .
9 I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual .
10 Although I was at art school for four years , I was hardly ever there , I always worked at home .
11 He records : ‘ I quickly felt at home in England .
12 Mario was always very clear on the subject , and I also talked at length with Peterson during the following year .
13 On that day , as I slowly followed the trail , I simply felt at home and at peace .
14 I almost felt at home , secure .
15 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 .
16 I do n't know why I never drove at home .
17 I could come out top in my exams then when I never did at school , I never did anything much at school at all .
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