Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Westminster Abbey Library is a fragment of a funerary taper found in Abbot Thomas Mylling 's tomb , which is presumed to have been placed there at the time of his funeral in 1492 and probably came off the hearse . |
| 2 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 3 | Since there is such a difference between the two documents , and since the Dunrossness District Plan was designed for immediate public consumption ( the Structurn Plan had not been disseminated widely at the time of our research , June , 1978 — January , 1979 ) one could suggest that the tenor of the document reflects the desire to underplay any potential conflicts between Shetlanders and incomers . |
| 4 | The policy has been applied nationwide at the company 's 100 locations after a pioneering attitude survey at Reading , where 81 per cent of the workforce were found to be non-smokers . |
| 5 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |
| 6 | Although there are only a handful of breeding peregrines known in the Lothians , there are sites where they have been seen regularly at the start of the breeding season , and then mysteriously disappeared . |
| 7 | But if Bobby wanted to get in on it now , he 'd have been turned away at the door : the elitists would have laughed at him for being in an indie band and ‘ Loaded ’ might never have been produced . |
| 8 | Syria has massive internal problems and most observers consider that apparent domestic calm has been bought only at the cost of severe repression of popular opposition to the country 's participation in the war . |
| 9 | She must have been staying there at the weekend ! |
| 10 | However , a cautionary note had been sounded right at the beginning of the whole exercise : |
| 11 | It was only at this stage that the dowry of the bride , which would usually have included both jewels and the title deeds to land , was actually handed over by the bride 's parents though details of the dowry would have been settled right at the beginning at Stage 1 of the proceedings . |
| 12 | However , crime has been displaced recently at the centre of race politics by another issue which points equally effectively to the incompatibility of different cultures supposedly sealed off from one another forever along ethnic lines . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , specialist retailers like Dixons , an electricals chain , and niche shops like Tie Rack have been paring away at the department stores ' share of the high-street market . |
| 14 | They had been sitting together at the top of their organisations throughout the years of cut-backs . |
| 15 | The blissfully happy couple had been married quietly at the registry office in Dublin on Wednesday afternoon and yesterday they received a special blessing from a Catholic priest at a secluded hotel in the Wicklow Mountains . |
| 16 | Mr Brumhill had been working late at the shop on Wellingborough Road , something he often did . |
| 17 | Mr Brumhill had been working late at the shop on Wellingborough Road , something he often did . |
| 18 | Concern has been mounting recently at the potential for unnecessary duplication of its activities with those of the Association of Railway Preservation Societies ( ARPS ) . |
| 19 | The genre of apocalyptic historical prophecy reached its apotheosis in the writings of Oswald Spengler , whose The Decline of the West had been published coincidentally at the time of Germany 's military defeat . |
| 20 | CGI 's most visible asset is the Pacbase software engineering product , which is sold around the world — but has n't IBM been hammering away at the software engineering anvil for the past five years at no inconsiderable cost in both money and resources with AD/Cycle … |