Example sentences of "have [vb pp] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You might have guessed at collusion , ’ I suggested . |
| 2 | The amount of basic salary which exceeds that which the employee would have received at home as a pensionable salary is termed an overseas allowance . |
| 3 | If you wait the full five years , the pension will be one-third higher than what you would have received at age 60 . |
| 4 | BELVILLE : I had thought you should have sat at table with me , but when I find you can not forget your original but must prefer my menials to me , you shall wait on me while I sup . |
| 5 | They were bound to have things in common , even if the difference in age made it unlikely that they 'd have overlapped at university . |
| 6 | " It must have come at night , " said Bigwig . |
| 7 | Some other teams might have quit at half-time — not us . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't know , I always said I 'd never took the piss out of these children , but I 'm sure I must have done at school , but I must admit I was embarrassed . |
| 9 | They too tend to work very hard , harder than they would have done at school , and get good results . |
| 10 | People who had gone overseas had probably made a wise choice and were likely to be doing better than they could have done at home , so the government felt it had done enough for them already . |
| 11 | These are eminently sensible things , which Reagan would not have done at gunpoint , and much the same themes run through the more contentious measures . |
| 12 | Edward Lear , too , would have felt at home in Bletchley 's realm of Complete Nonsense ; and he would even have found a friend called Foss . |
| 13 | Bournemouth must have felt at home on a pitch which resembled a beach after the tide had receded . |
| 14 | Thus by 1930 , when a Roman would still have felt at home on an Andalusian estate , Catalonia contained some of the largest textile concerns in Europe and the immigrant labour , which poured into the Catalan towns in order to escape the wretchedness of rural life , brought into the labour movements of a modern industrial civilization the millenarian tradition of peasants and landless labourers . |
| 15 | It is a homage to the kind of spirit that would have felt at home in Philip Glass . |
| 16 | They would not have felt at ease if the beach had been entirely unpeopled , and indeed it was not , but over here balls would not bounce nor running youngsters kick sand up on to their towels , and there was the shade essential for Jack , which his wife had still to remind him about . |
| 17 | Well we would have had at school . |
| 18 | Erm , so I was constantly getting rises , less my service pay and erm it got to a state there where sometimes my service pay was more than what the erm salary I would have got at home was and my wife had to pay to keep my superannuation live . |
| 19 | Although they did n't , they did n't act illegally , they did n't say right , we 're going to make the redundancy payment act , but what they did say you retire at fifty , we will make your we will enhance your pension to what you would have got at age sixty , we will enhance your lump sum to what you would have got at age sixty and erm give you a redundancy payment from the firm and obviously everybody fifty and plus they 've gone in thousands , they had enormous waiting lists and then they had to say no , you ca n't go you know , too many people wanted to go . |
| 20 | Although they did n't , they did n't act illegally , they did n't say right , we 're going to make the redundancy payment act , but what they did say you retire at fifty , we will make your we will enhance your pension to what you would have got at age sixty , we will enhance your lump sum to what you would have got at age sixty and erm give you a redundancy payment from the firm and obviously everybody fifty and plus they 've gone in thousands , they had enormous waiting lists and then they had to say no , you ca n't go you know , too many people wanted to go . |
| 21 | Yes , at fifty instead of sixty , they said you retire at age fifty and we will make your pension up to what you would have got at age sixty and we will also do the same with you lump sum and so now you know , this and they did that with thirty thousand I think went in one year , it does n't take long to get rid of one point seven billion pounds when you 're doing for that er that number of people erm and |
| 22 | ‘ I should have stayed at home , ’ said Cameron . |
| 23 | He could have stayed at home since , in the year of his journey , Famous Players-Lasky set up its own studio in Islington , to make films the American way . |
| 24 | Wednesday 's match marked the Dutch football federation 's centenary , although considering the side Holland were forced to field , Queen Beatrix might just as well have stayed at home and sent the centenarians a congratulatory telegram . |
| 25 | Virginia Bottomley , a health minister , said many of the 3,000 people sleeping rough in the city might have stayed at home had they been given enough attention earlier . |
| 26 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 27 | The lads said I should have stayed at home . |
| 28 | Marius was dismissive about both of them and thought that if they could n't manage two weeks of bedmaking and personal organisation then they should have stayed at home . |
| 29 | As the insects met a sticky death on her windscreen and brambles and gorse bushes clawed at the bright sides of her hired Fiat , she wondered if she should have stayed at home and if she would ever , in fact , see ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ You should all have stayed at home , ’ he was saying , stuffing tobacco into his pipe with nervous fingers . |