Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 2 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 3 | It may be a consolation for them to know that I 've been at the receiving end myself . |
| 4 | This is then rotated and scaled , making the ‘ ball ’ appear to bounce in the out of the screen ( Sounds like you 've been at the loony juice again to me — Ed ) . |
| 5 | He was three years older than Adam and though they had been at the same school , Highgate , they had not been friends then . |
| 6 | We had originally intended to freeze our budget at precisely the level that it has been at the last two years for a variety of reasons we have decided that it is sensible to actually bring it down yet further . |
| 7 | He 'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city . |
| 8 | The torrent here was almost as fearsome as it had been at the original crossing point , but not so deep . |