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

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1 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 .
2 Finally , I must correct Mr Marnell 's inaccurate version of a quote I made at committee .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 But I lived at home . ’
6 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 .
7 No-one ‘ dropped in ’ on our family the whole of the time I lived at home .
8 I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses .
9 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 .
10 Certainly , I 'd never erm , forgiven er people for beatings I got at school .
11 I can see the coffee houses ordering enormous quantities — if what I tasted at supper yesterday is any guide — ‘
12 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 .
13 But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers .
14 Mr , I 'm moving exactly what I moved at property sub- committee .
15 Oh , she said , well well I stopped at number two .
16 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
17 I recognised at school that I had the talent to become a politician when , at the end of a particularly bad term , the headmaster wrote on my report , ’ One can not help but be quite captivated by him , provided one gives him no work to do . ’
18 I practised at home , of course .
19 For three years I played at will .
20 I played at leftback , centre half , in midfield and as a striker , ’ he said .
21 They always encouraged varied materials where I studied at art college in Loughborough .
22 A few minutes later I arrived at Granny 's where I found a crowd of people outside her door .
23 When I first went to Dent , before the war , I arrived at dusk , hungry and footsore after walking all day .
24 The following morning , as I arrived at work , the watchman was waiting for me .
25 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 .
26 One January morning I arrived at work late .
27 I arrived at work one Monday to find the roof had collapsed following some heavy rain , ’ she explained .
28 Then suddenly , every morning when I arrived at school two kids would stand by the gate and shout out , ‘ Nigger , nigger , pull your trigger !
29 Having entered for the shot putt and having practised by throwing half bricks at our next-door neighbour 's cat ( which happily stayed out of range of the missiles whilst becoming increasingly terrified by my ever-improving grunts ) I arrived at school feeling pretty confident .
30 At 8.45 I arrived at school my heart filled with delight as I stood amongst pupils in school uniform while I stood in my usual scruffy manner .
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