Example sentences of "[conj] i have [be] at the " in BNC.

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1 It may be a consolation for them to know that I 've been at the receiving end myself .
2 He said the area had ‘ an extremely unfair image because the majority of people on this estate want the best housing facilities and the best education for the children and that is certainly my view in the year and a half that I 've been at the school ’ .
3 I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it .
4 ‘ But blood is thicker than water and I have been at the hospital waiting to hear how she is but she has n't come round yet , ’ said Mr Harrison .
5 Well , this is the thing , we have a caretaker but er fo for his services , but I 've been at the council and I have got nowhere , I have from the corporation , there 's an awful lot of people complaining but they 'll do nothing about it !
6 ‘ Unemployment is something that personally concerns me because I have been at the edge of unemployment all my life , ’ added the 42-year-old who speaks highly of the quality of the environment on Teesside , a much richer and more vibrant and pleasant place in which to live than he had imagined .
7 Since I had been at the university we had seen far less of each other .
8 ‘ The first half was the worst we 've ever had since I 've been at the club .
9 After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better .
10 After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on .
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