Example sentences of "[pron] have been at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exam educates youngsters cheaply up to a level that is not reached in other countries until someone has been at university for a year . |
| 2 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 3 | Happily I had been at school with this fellow and was able to contact him on my next leave , and to persuade him that it would be a pity to spoil his good name by killing me . |
| 4 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 5 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 6 | My standards have definitely dropped since I 've been at home with the baby . |
| 7 | I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been at ITN for a long time and come from a traditional news background . |
| 9 | However , the Heilbron Report made no proposals to change the law on the issue which had been at stake in the Morgan case — that a man could escape a rape conviction if he thought that the woman was consenting whether she was or not . |
| 10 | Stützer , who has been at Kamekestrasse since 1980 and whose programme consists mainly of sculpture , is , until 6 June , showing neo-Constructivist works by the Yugoslav-born sculptor Wasa Marjanov . |
| 11 | Much may be blamed on the impermeable Alan Beith , who has been at Berwick since 1973 and thinks nothing to striding round five villages , after starting on Holy Island in the sort of rain that suggests God getting out the strap , and then darting up to Duns in what was Berwickshire , Scotland , to do a broadcast . |
| 12 | She has been at Orion since October , and has been responsible for , among other things , the marketing of Vikram Seth 's A Suitable Boy . |
| 13 | Mrs Clinton replied that she 'd been at college with him and they 'd had a very close relationship . |
| 14 | Johnny Smart , who 'd been at Oxford with him and edited one of the university magazines , landed what seemed then an amazing job on the Evening Standard . |
| 15 | Both Lady Amory and Sir John liked to get their hands in the soil — they did all the planting and arranging of the beds themselves — but they also had two willing helpers , gardeners who 'd been at Knightshayes for years , and some foresters . |
| 16 | You 've been at school for years and what have you achieved ? |
| 17 | Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with . |
| 18 | By the time InterSpray arrived back in Southampton she had been at sea for 156 days , 14 hours and 9 minutes . |
| 19 | In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year . |
| 20 | Peter Boardman , who had been at School between 1956 and 1969 , was one of the best-known names in British mountaineering at this period . |
| 21 | Edward Burne-Jones , who had been at Oxford with Morris and then shared a London house with him , was a regular visitor . |
| 22 | In turn , Eleanor introduced her to someone else , a young woman named Mary Hammond-Heath , who had been at Oxford with Eleanor , and who was not much interested in being married . |
| 23 | The flight engineer , who had been at Halton as all apprentice with me and had left and later returned to the Air Force , complained bitterly as I was making all the preparations for take-off , but I ignored him . |
| 24 | Miss Fogerty had never been so happy as she was now , living with Dorothy and next door to another old friend , Isobel Shoosmith , who had been at college with her years before . |
| 25 | Before long though , Harold meets his future wife Isobel , who had been at college with Agnes Fogerty , and they live happily ever after . |
| 26 | It is useless to speculate why he chose him , rather than one of the monks of Bec or Caen who had been at Canterbury throughout Lanfranc 's tenure of the archbishopric . |
| 27 | Cameron did not mind about that , even when Harvey Broadribb , who had been at Juillard with him , won the Academy Award for his work on the movie . |
| 28 | In this connection it was agreed that Christine should add the names and addresses of those who had been at Carberry to her database . |
| 29 | Their decision could also be crucial to the outcome of a long legal battle between the ministry and women peace protesters who have been at Greenham for eight years . |
| 30 | The result is a simple , self-contained operation that protects the environment efficiently , and brings benefits to all parties involved not least those in the community who have been at risk from inadequate or illegal disposal of used hypodermic needles and other hazardous waste . |