Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] be at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
2 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
3 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
4 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
5 | This did not mean a dramatic drop in popularity : indeed , his approval rating was higher in 1966 and early 1967 than it had been at any point since the Algerian crisis . |
6 | Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards . |
7 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
8 | Ambiguous as to whether or not Singer drowned himself , it looks at an era — 1964 to 1979 — during which the spirit of rapacious capitalism he personified was at any rate submerged . |