Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] be at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 2 | She 'd rarely been at school , went into domestic service , could n't read , but can write her name , then got married . |
| 3 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 4 | Rufus put up two or three names , one being of someone they had both been at school with . |
| 5 | He did talk to his wife , Empress Farah , but otherwise he had never been at ease with Iranians . |
| 6 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |