Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] be at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt like a Run , so I left my jacket near the Pole I 'd been at the day Diggs had come with the news , and tucked the catapult tightly between my cords and my belt . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | The next time I noticed was at the terminus |
| 4 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 5 | Since I had been at the university we had seen far less of each other . |
| 6 | ‘ T is how I learned that you 'd been at the castle . |
| 7 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 8 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 9 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 10 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 11 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 12 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 13 | She retreated round the stall ; she had been at the front , helping a customer to choose something from what remained unsold . |
| 14 | Last time we met was at the Training Centre at Achnacarry . |
| 15 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 16 | We had been at the wedding a full hour before I began to be curious about the whereabouts of the bride and groom . |
| 17 | So that was nineteen eighty two , the first one we had was at the end of nineteen eighty four , which was at . |
| 18 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 19 | Erm that probably because they 'd been at the bottom so long , er it did n't appear that there was |
| 20 | The questions posed by the existence of the asylums thus remained as unanswered at the end of these closures as they had been at the inception of their planning in 1978 , when NETRHA officers too were also beginning the difficult task of addressing them . |
| 21 | They had been at the airport for six hours , waiting for a flight , any flight out of Iraq , going anywhere . |
| 22 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 23 | It had been a puzzle that they could be knocked around in interaction with each other and yet emerge unscathed , the same as they had been at the beginning . |
| 24 | After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective . |
| 25 | Thus lone parents were both relatively and absolutely worse off by the end of the 1980s than they had been at the start of the decade ( see also Roll , 1988a , 1988b ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I just thought he 'd been at the whisky even more than usual , and ignored him . |
| 27 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 28 | In the week that he 'd been at the helm of the Anpetuwi ship there had been a remarkable change in atmosphere . |
| 29 | What is our concern , though , is the notion of love which he saw was at the centre of understanding the work of Christ . |
| 30 | Christmas of 1919 seems to have been vastly more festive than it had been at the workhouse in , say , the Dickensian days of 1844 . |