Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rang her every day , but I had n't seen her during the time I 'd been living at Eva 's ; I could n't face any of them in that house . |
| 2 | No , I was looking forward to the Open because I 'd been stationed at Formby for my army service and I was anticipating meeting all my old friends from that time . |
| 3 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 4 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 5 | " I 've been living at Moorlake . |
| 6 | Ranjan Gohin , 36 , summed up the mood saying : ‘ I 've been working at John Lewis for 14 years and I do n't think this will put me off . |
| 7 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 8 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 9 | One Martian meteorite already recovered from Antarctica , which has been analysed at Milton Keynes , contained significant amounts of organic chemicals . |
| 10 | ( iv ) Place the slide on the surface of a slide warmer ( hot plate ) which has been stabilized at 70-C . |
| 11 | Only change to the Bomber Command Hall will come with the removal of the Mosquito T.III , which is being replaced with the much more appropriate Mosquito B.35 TJ138 , which has been refurbished at St Athan . |
| 12 | His situation was not in this respect dissimilar from that of the leaders of the North of England Sailors and Seagoing Firemen 's Friendly Association , which had been formed at Sunderland in 1879 by John Beresford and was commonly known as the " Sunderland Union " . |
| 13 | In 1843 his mother inherited from Dr Bollman , a Hungarian chemist , the chemical manufactory of C. Foot & Co. which had been founded at Battersea in 1816 . |
| 14 | Mrs. Price , chairman , reported on the visit to Cranleigh 40th anniversary party and the inaugural group meeting which had been held at Farnham . |
| 15 | Noted successes included Anselm Kiefer 's ‘ Säulen ’ ( lot 24 ) , ‘ Franz im Bett ’ , a major painting by Georg Baselitz ( lot 23a , est. $300–400,000 ) which had been shown at Berlin 's ‘ Zeitgeist ’ exhibition in 1982 and was bought by an unidentified collector from Omaha for $400,000 ( £222,200 ) ; a precious little candle painting by Gerhard Richter ( lot 3 , est. $80–120,000 ) which attracted keen interest and a winning bid of $200,000 ( £111,100 ) ; and ‘ Stacked ’ , a carved polychrome wood sculpture of an assortment of domestic and farm animals by Jeff Koons ( lot 8a , est. $100–150,000 ) from the Banality exhibition of 1988 and shown in ‘ Metropolis ’ in Berlin last year , which was sold for $160,000 ( £88,900 ) with Thomas Ammann and Anthony d'Offay among the underbidders . |
| 16 | The British Government , mindful no doubt of the prospect of taking over the presidency at the end of the month and apparently unaware of the flagging support in the country for Maastricht , pressed on with the approach which had been agreed at Oslo of ‘ helping ’ the Danes to change their minds while preserving the Treaty intact . |
| 17 | Since previously only about one in three advertised charter trains actually ran ( there were indeed up to a hundred independent rail tour operators ) , the new regime immediately brought a crop of casualties , including in 1985 the Rail Tour Operators Association , the very organisation which had been established at Ward 's insistence to negotiate train hire on behalf of all independents . |
| 18 | In April 1964 the working committee on civil rights , which had been established at QUB in March 1963 , carried out a survey based on interviews with four hundred people ; an earlier survey had been made in Newry . |
| 19 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council mention was made of the large gates onto the highway which have been erected at Burnside Snow Hill , Scorton . |
| 20 | There are , however , two criticisms which have been levelled at Hamilton 's ideas , mainly by sociologists and anthropologists , which are based on a misunderstanding . |
| 21 | I hear you 've been looking at Eggle guitars … |
| 22 | Before Kevin Ryan came back from America and bought the Half House from the last improvident Hamilton , nephew of her mother 's first husband who 'd been killed at Tobruk . |
| 23 | The umpires conferred , then , like Tweedledum and Tweedledee in their striped shirts , cantered over to the third man in the stands , who 'd been gazing at Mrs Sherwood at the time and missed the incident altogether , and who now waved his down-turned palms back and forth to indicate no foul . |
| 24 | A gallant Irishman who 'd been wounded at Dunkirk and invalided out . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm sorry it 's not cordon bleu dear like you 've been having at Pontepool . |
| 26 | She had been rededicated at St Luke 's a year previous to that . |
| 27 | She had been looking at Mick , but turned slowly and looked at Joe , and smiling slightly said , ‘ Yes ; yes , of course . ’ |
| 28 | She had been married at Henry III 's instigation to Henry , son of Richard of Cornwall , in 1269 . |
| 29 | The visitors , who included several who had been employed at RHS in its early days , were welcomed to the service by the school chaplain , the Rev Kevan McCormack , who referred to the support given to the school by many local people over the years . |
| 30 | In June 1940 , Dean Pollard had reported to the committee that an infant , Margaret C. , who had been born at St. Peter 's , and who had a double harelip and cleft palate , had been referred to the Children 's Hospital , Great Ormond Street . |