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 . |