Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] be [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 2 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
| 3 | If I had been asked at Christmas whether my home waters of Chew and Blagdon would be full by opening day , the answer would have been an emphatic no . |
| 4 | The plain fact of the matter , snobbish though it may sound , was that they were both unintelligent and ill-educated in comparison to myself , belonging as they did to a different social class from the one into which I had been co-opted at school . |
| 5 | I was very interested in their answers to my questions , which often seemed to offer a different view of history from the one I had been taught at school . |
| 6 | They were there only because they 'd been stopped at gunpoint from going any farther — by the Turkish army , a key NATO ally of the US and Britain . |
| 7 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
| 8 | They had been trained at college to preach Western-style sermons based on abstract thinking arranged in linear form . |
| 9 | She preached about the passover , a subject they had been studying at Bible camp , and obviously made a good impression . |
| 10 | They had been sitting at home ( unheated , before Anna put in the plumbing and the armchairs ) with cousins and priests coming to black coffee now and then while the prince was out on his horse or at the club . |
| 11 | As soon as Moby was too old for puppy classes , he went to the bigger-dog classes , run by Jenny , to reinforce what he 'd been taught at puppy classes and , most importantly , what he 'd learned at home . |
| 12 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 13 | The interior of Mr Broadhurst 's caravan had remained unchanged during the four years it had been sited at Cliff Top . |
| 14 | ELBC radio ( Monrovia ) said that he had been seen at Man in Côte d'Ivoire , landing aboard a Cessna light aircraft with relatives , en route for Burkina . |
| 15 | It was a totally inappropriate thing to say , but she was a visitor , and the first since he had been staying at Fern Cottage on his own . |
| 16 | Up until two years ago , he had been tutored at home . |
| 17 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 18 | But he had never seen Tara ; he had been abandoned at birth , he had been flung out by the King , who would have none of his Queen 's bastard wolfson at his Court . |
| 19 | Marital work was accepted by these parents in an effort to solve the problem , and progress was made once the father finally admitted that he had been told at work that he was too domineering and was unable to delegate responsibility to his juniors . |
| 20 | He would remember every time he had been humiliated at school or home , exaggerating the feeling and circumstances involved . |
| 21 | He had been working at tar Processing and the fumes had given him an unpleasant skin complaint . |