Example sentences of "[noun] had [been] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ari found it was strangely comforting to be told how confused Ewan had been at the time he 'd turned his back on his family . |
| 2 | Whenever there was something amiss in the district she wondered where her brothers had been at the time , and as she had been making her way to Sainsbury 's this thought had yet again crossed her mind . |
| 3 | At seven-twenty that same morning , Scott had been at the site of an unusual hit-and-run story : two older men had been killed and another injured by a police patrol car . |
| 4 | Half the force had been at the match , of course , although that was hardly an excuse . |
| 5 | Blanche asked if Blufton had been at the farewell party the night before . |
| 6 | For ten years Law had been at the heart of the party 's reactions to political events , largely because his own views mirrored those of his followers almost exactly . |
| 7 | If only Nubenehem remembered it , then at least he could establish for certain which girl had been at the City of Dreams . |
| 8 | Sidacai would not know that Burun had been at the back of it all , of course , and either way he would owe his life to the Merkuts . |
| 9 | Matthew had been at the Plaza for a week now , with scarcely a moment to call his own . |
| 10 | Rachel Sims ( Mrs Miller ) is still serving with the Metropolitan Police Force , and for the last few years had been at the rank of inspector , until recently holding the post of Staff Officer to the Deputy Assistant Commissioner in charge of the North West London . |
| 11 | Nine-year-old Joanne had been at the fete helping to give pony rides to help raise funds for the Longeval Animal Sanctuary Trust , which is run by her mother , Cindy . |
| 12 | Joe had been at the pub that evening , and when he arrived home just before ten , he found her on the floor . |
| 13 | The boy told us that his dog had been at the head of the pack from the start , biting the boar 's heels and almost bringing it down . |
| 14 | Suppose Mrs. McLoughlin had been at the scene of the accident ; according to conventionalism she would have a legal right to recover in virtue of past decisions . |
| 15 | After the 1987 election , scarcely more than a tenth ( eleven per cent ) of MPs had been at the school . |
| 16 | Another man had been at the table for some time but Beales only looked at him at this point , curious to know who MacQuillan was with . |
| 17 | Cornwall had been at the fore-front of the Spanish wars and indeed , the incident which sparked off the war took place at Fowey and Saltash . |
| 18 | Wearying though the journey had been at the time — even humiliating in respect of his being drawn in a litter — in retrospect it seemed full of excitement , a time when one knew not what would happen next or what lay around the next corner . |
| 19 | The feelings of Sixties youth had been at the centre of Crawford 's most successful screen characters , but his third film with director Richard Lester was to incense the older generation in a way that no film had done before . |
| 20 | This means that the total level of unemployment exceeds the natural level — i.e. the level of unemployment which would still have existed even if the real wage had been at the level ( W/P ) 0 which cleared the labour market . |
| 21 | Sri Lanka had been at the forefront of Asian intellectual thinking and had gained a good reputation for human rights and civil liberty before these recent years of violence and oppression . |
| 22 | The evening before , the carrier-bag had been at the foot of the monkey-puzzle , propped up against the trunk , facing the house . |
| 23 | Their innermost secrets had been at the mercy of the West for a year . |
| 24 | The possibility had been at the back of Cadfael 's mind for some time . |
| 25 | Theresa had been at the settlement since September , helping to harvest tomatoes and melons . |
| 26 | Walter had been at the première in 1904 . |
| 27 | If Puddephat had been at the flat in Paris on Friday evening , he could hardly have squeezed a trip to Germany in between . |