Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
2 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
3 | If I had been asked at Christmas whether my home waters of Chew and Blagdon would be full by opening day , the answer would have been an emphatic no . |
4 | The plain fact of the matter , snobbish though it may sound , was that they were both unintelligent and ill-educated in comparison to myself , belonging as they did to a different social class from the one into which I had been co-opted at school . |
5 | I was very interested in their answers to my questions , which often seemed to offer a different view of history from the one I had been taught at school . |
6 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
7 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
8 | Current theories about source relationships , and details of the stage history of The Fairy Queen that are inferable from them , rest upon printed evidence which has been taken at face value — accepted even when Purcell 's autograph contradicts it . |
9 | And I er addressing your attention ma'am to , particularly to , the erm M A F F laboratory , which has been established at Sand Hutton , which is a maj , going to be a very major employer , located immediately adjacent to , well within this particular sector . |
10 | Hair Type : Short , grown out style which had been coloured at home . |
11 | She said : ‘ They admitted having Ecstasy which had been bought at rave parties . |
12 | A castrated stallion who has been used at stud may continue to behave like an entire , but be infertile . |
13 | She has been based at home for the last 10 years , collecting water , doing the cooking and waiting to get married . |
14 | ‘ I trust you 've been rehearsing at home . ’ |
15 | And tell me what else you 've been doing at school ? |
16 | Just talk like what you 've been doing at school and things like that . |
17 | Both men were typical members of the new class of civil servants , who had been educated at university and styled themselves " master " . |
18 | It was just his bad luck that the village of Pontino lay just within that border and that it was he , and not some Sienese colleague who had been awakened at dawn . |
19 | Rumours that Gaunt had designs on the crown were flying about , and it was alleged that he was a changeling , a butcher 's son , substituted for the queen 's own son who had been smothered at birth . |
20 | Someone — for example , an elderly person — for whom you have been caring at home and in consequence have been getting income support ( or supplementary benefit in the past ) |
21 | We talk about ‘ god ’ sometimes here at home , and you have been told at school to sing hymns and say prayers to ‘ god ’ , and you hear ‘ god ’ spoken about on the radio and television , also your friends talk and argue about ‘ god ’ , but nobody at all will tell you who or what ‘ god ’ really is , and this is because ‘ god ’ is only imaginary just as fairies are . |
22 | We 've been moving at night . |
23 | All this week we 've been looking at life inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
24 | We 've been looking at horticulture on a grand scale . |
25 | It 's the cheese we 've been having at work this week |
26 | Speaking about the draw , O'Neill said : ‘ We 're thrilled , we 've been drawn at home and although there 's a small matter of beating West Brom — that should n't be a problem ! ’ |
27 | They were there only because they 'd been stopped at gunpoint from going any farther — by the Turkish army , a key NATO ally of the US and Britain . |
28 | They 've also blocked off the railway line , and British drivers say they 've been threatened at knife point . |
29 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
30 | They had been trained at college to preach Western-style sermons based on abstract thinking arranged in linear form . |