Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean look at training objectives . |
| 2 | Now I want to look at pattern knitting with the colour changer . |
| 3 | ‘ I shall look them up In a book I haff got at home . |
| 4 | I like to sleep at night , and applying " scorched earth " tactics in selling OTC stocks to some unsuspecting people makes me cringe . |
| 5 | But I like to walk at night . |
| 6 | I get frightened at thunder … too . " |
| 7 | ‘ So there am I spending the rest of that day with you in my thoughts , and getting barely any rest from thoughts of you when I try to sleep at night either . ’ |
| 8 | Good god , no , well even without a partner , I stay stuck at home . |
| 9 | I love cooking at home , although Susan is such a good cook that I tend to fulfil the role of kitchen assistant . |
| 10 | ‘ I prefer playing at centre half because I like to attack the ball in the air and I 'm in the thick of it more in the middle . ’ |
| 11 | I mean I 've stayed at home for nearly four years now . |
| 12 | I 've seen at school that one . |
| 13 | I 've got to get out as soon as I get , I 've , I 've promised at night I 'd have , I 'll , I 'll have someone for a night , I 've got to have someone at night as well as the day |
| 14 | I 've sat at home with relations , preparing to watch the show with them , and they 'll sit through the opening music in respectful silence , but as soon as I start to speak , so do they . |
| 15 | I 've looked at report ca n't find anything . |
| 16 | Well that 's the one I 've got at work you see . |
| 17 | I mean I 'm fairly used to what I 've got at work now . |
| 18 | Anyway , it 's not a bad amp , but the one I 've got at home is much better . |
| 19 | You ought a erm drink that bottle of coke I 've got at home because that goes flat do n't it ? |
| 20 | the one I 've got at home , the first one I ever was wicked . |
| 21 | Like another release in the same series — Benedict Mason 's Lighthouses of England and Wales , which I 've reviewed at length below — Birtwistle 's work is also , for all its contemporary superstructure and substructures , a species of tone-poem in a genre that British composers tend to be good at : in this case the quasipantheistic dark-pastoral in the tradition of North Country Sketches , In the Faery Hills , Enter Spring and , perhaps especially , the ‘ Ritual dances ’ from Tippett 's Midsummer Marriage . |
| 22 | ‘ It was n't that , it was the amount of time I have to spend at home … helping with Jennifer , ’ she added . |
| 23 | As I have argued at length elsewhere , retirement is both the leading form of age discrimination and the driving force behind the wider development of ageism in modern societies . |
| 24 | ‘ I have waited at table every day for the last fifty-four years , ’ my father remarked , his voice perfectly unhurried . |
| 25 | The possibility of reason-giving , of being capable of the awareness that one 's life was one way , that it is now different , and that futility is the result , involves , as I have contended at length , the possibility of language . |
| 26 | As well as attending most Easter Courses for the last eleven years I have assisted at Guide Camps for even longer enjoying at least one week a year far removed from houses , telephones and television — what bliss ! |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't , but there are things I have to do at home . ’ |
| 28 | trouble is I have to leave at quarter to eight |
| 29 | Elsewhere , I have elaborated at length on the reasons why it is implausible to suggest that the first hunters were the ruling males of what Freud termed the ‘ primal hordes ’ , but rather the unmated , younger males of the all-male groups , Freud 's ‘ sons ’ . |
| 30 | Now , what I have learnt at college this week which is rather interesting I think . |