Example sentences of "i [vb past] at [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Well I tried at quarter to nine the day that there there is talking about it and er I was n't allowed on the phone . |
| 3 | The other thing that was interesting I learnt at dinner on Thursday night is , under the government 's legislation within so many years , nineteen ninety four I think , they 've got to ha have reduced their market share from the original hundred percent to sixty percent as new firms come in to sell gas |
| 4 | I arrived at work on the Monday and was handed a cheque and my personal belongings at the desk in the foyer and was then escorted out by Security . |
| 5 | I was never invited to parties by the children I admired at school like Kathryn Watson who had a kilt pinned with a great silver safety pin . |
| 6 | With those I returned at speed to the boathouse and attacked the lower door , first hammering the toe of the tyre lever into a nonexistent crack between the wooden door frame and the surrounding brickwork at a level just below the keyhole , then bashing the far end of that iron , to put heavy leverage against the door frame , then wrenching out the lever and repeating the whole process above the lock , this time with fury . |
| 7 | Like if I worked at home on Saturday night , and I worked at home on a Sunday lunch-time it would be really , really busy all the time , and like there 's four areas to cover in and there 's only two areas and I think its too |
| 8 | Like if I worked at home on Saturday night , and I worked at home on a Sunday lunch-time it would be really , really busy all the time , and like there 's four areas to cover in and there 's only two areas and I think its too |
| 9 | I started at school in the 1920s , when we were taught how to knit the toe and heel of socks ( very handy in later life ) and I continued to knit later for my children , grandchildren and even a great-grandson until about four years ago when I developed knitter 's thumb ! |
| 10 | At breakfast , I had been given freshly home-made bread , and I felt at peace with the world . |
| 11 | I felt at peace with the world , even though by the summer of 1939 Europe seemed to be drifting closer to war and everyone was glued to the BBC short-wave Overseas Service bulletins , or even devouring month-old copies of The Times which had been airmailed to Australia and sent on by ship , together with the Illustrated London News , Tatler , and particular titles ordered by the expatriates . |
| 12 | I felt at home at once … ’ |
| 13 | IT IS many years since I looked at Punch for anything except the advertisements . |
| 14 | I listened at length to her story , then I talked for a moment about the unshakeable fact of the resurrection , about the city where God will wipe away every tear . |
| 15 | I stayed at home on Sunday while my wife and son went to church . |
| 16 | I stayed at Bilen for four days . |
| 17 | I stood at ease in front of them and the interrogation started . |