Example sentences of "i [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
2 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
3 | At the time I was of the same colouring ( there 's a portrait of me hanging at Burpham ) . |
4 | I needed a job which would enable me to work at home , and be with my family every evening . |
5 | Anna had me educated at home as she herself had been and Constanza . |
6 | So was old Jacko , who 'd made me re-write at Thrills piece twice and still did n't run it . |
7 | The same question I asked at city hall , it 's slightly different in that now the council has left two and a half available over the next erm three years given that it is not already taken . |
8 | The flight 's delayed but only slightly ; I change at Gatwick in breezy sunshine and the 146 touches down on Jersey in relatively balmy conditions . |
9 | I change at Baker Street . |
10 | I grin at Dressing-gown and I sing out nice and loud : ‘ Hallo , Tod , how are you ? |
11 | Although the cobalt-bleomycin complex ( which binds to but does not cleave DNA ) yields good DNase I footprints at GT and GC sites , no footprints are observed within ( AT ) n , suggesting that although the cleavage reaction is efficient , the binding affinity is relatively weak . |
12 | I gazed at Caduta warily . |
13 | I gazed at Teds and my friend Pam 's cousin Malcolm who had a Tony Curtis and a bootlace tie . |
14 | We climbed aboard the transport and as we moved away in convoy I gazed at Francoise from the back of the truck . |
15 | They offered at £6.15s.0d. , I countered at £7.5s.0d. , confident of settlement at £7.0s.0d. , their counter was £6.15s.0d. or forget it ! |
16 | I do n't want to even think about the two mistakes I made at Wembley the last time against Spurs . ’ |
17 | Finally , I must correct Mr Marnell 's inaccurate version of a quote I made at committee . |
18 | No I mean at centre on Wednesday |
19 | well , if you can get on with doing that thing , sit down and look through those magazines with me and I 'll show you the prices that I can get them at retail I mean at trade , all the prices cos I 've got that two and a half thousand gallon job and that is only seventy quid , so I 'm just gon na have one of those , I 'm gon na have that with a U V A filter and eight er eight watt U V A filter which is fifty quid , that then , which is for one of those tanks which is for three hundred and fifty , but that 's not , I 've that 's |
20 | Very rarely do I eat at home . |
21 | If the development of civil society means in later capitalism , say from the end of the nineteenth century , the flourishing of an independent cultural and aesthetic sphere , then this might , as I argued at length above , be disruptive to the ideal interests , indeed to the very identity , of the bourgeoisie . |
22 | When I lived at home my mum was cool about whatever I wore ; her only considerations were practical ones , like insisting I wore ten million jumpers if I went out in the cold . |
23 | But I lived at home . ’ |
24 | She 's very muddly and disorganized and I can see so clearly where she falls wrong … when I lived at home it was always a bit of a nightmare because I was always trying to get things straight . |
25 | No-one ‘ dropped in ’ on our family the whole of the time I lived at home . |
26 | I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses . |
27 | If it 's like the one we lived in , cos when I , I lived at home with mum and dad we lived in Craigan Road and they 're two rooms . |
28 | Oh I li well I , I 've had a lot of moves dear in my time I tell you I , first of all when I first got married I lived at Bishop 's Stortford , then from Bishop 's Stortford I went to erm Stansted in rooms cos I , you know we could n't get a place and from there I had one of my sons oh hello time , eleven o'clock just struck what 's the day ? |
29 | Cos she says you would n't lend me none when I lived at Arthur 's , I says no because every time I lent one at our Arthur 's he swore black and blue it were his . |
30 | ‘ Madeleine , Mrs Appleby is a person , not just a cook ; and in the days when I lived at Maythorpe House , she was enormously kind to me , ’ Harry said . |