Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had first heard of my appointment to Stornoway I had been elated at the prospect of leaving a somewhat dull routine existence down south . |
| 2 | Judith had once confided that she too had an uncertain grasp of the past , though she 'd been drunk at the time , and had denied it vehemently when he 'd raised the subject again . |
| 3 | Rory jumped as though she 'd been shot at the sound of the lazily amused voice materialising apparently out of nowhere . |
| 4 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 5 | They suspected she had been poisoned at the party . |
| 6 | The version and version number of the program that you have is displayed at the top of this screen , whilst at the bottom is your licence number and some guidance regarding which keys to press . |
| 7 | When we got in touch with the Colonel a surprisingly easy task , the military communications network superbly efficient — it turned out we had been landed at the wrong port . |
| 8 | Hamilton greeted him with emotional thanks and immediately surrendered our papers : our little Nansen passport , our Portuguese visa , even the ticket coupon with which we had been issued at the harbour of Salerno . |
| 9 | We had been told at the time he had been in trouble before . |
| 10 | From their article on the latter it is clear that Taskopruzade and Mecdi suppose him to have been located at the Zincirli medrese at Aksaray in Karaman at the time of Molla Fenari 's period of study with him . |
| 11 | Each time they 've been reprieved at the last moment . |
| 12 | The maximum ACT offset is limited to the amount of tax that would have been payable on the profits assuming they had been charged at the basic rate of tax ( s 239(2) ) . |
| 13 | They will trawl back in their minds for comments and clues that , if they had been understood at the time , might have enabled them to be more helpful . |
| 14 | There were no non-sick ( workhouse ) beds at the Bedford Institution ; they had been closed at the beginning of the war . |
| 15 | They have been placed at the head of this chapter only because it is the extreme case which so often bothers the social worker in consideration of what he or she might be involved in if the sexual side of the work develops . |
| 16 | They have been relocated at the Iwaba wildlife estate , where they will be protected from poachers , and where they are needed to reduce the density of the bush , which is outgrowing the ability of the animals to eat it . |
| 17 | The problem for the hon. Member for Dartford is that , once he has been defeated at the next election , he will be replaced as a candidate by the hon. Member for Stirling ( Mr. Forsyth ) . |
| 18 | It has been noted at the NLM that there are an increasing number of end-users — medical practitioners — who are interested in using the MEDLINE system themselves . |
| 19 | The find will be the subject of an inquest , probably next year after all research and conservation on it has been completed at the British Museum . |
| 20 | At the time of writing , it has been disclosed at the trial of the former military junta in Buenos Aires that on 5 January 1982 it ‘ set up a working group to analyse the possibility of taking the islands ’ . |
| 21 | During the three years that it has been accommodated at the Paris Exhibition Centre at Porte de Versailles — the original venue at CNIT having succumbed to the demolition expert 's hammer — the Salon Nautique has expanded by almost 20 per cent . |
| 22 | It has been discussed at the very highest level . ’ |
| 23 | When I got into work on the big day I found out he 'd been arrested at the weekend . |
| 24 | At the former , stone-robbing had effectively removed the crucial junction on the steeply sloping ground ; at the gate , it remained unclear whether the wall was already in existence or whether it had been constructed at the same time . |
| 25 | But in this warm and pleasant climate she was dressed in a long black dress which looked as though it had been made at the time of Heathcliff . |
| 26 | It had been repeated at the end of that century by Leibniz , who attempted in the collections of treaties and other documents which he published , the Codex Juris Centium Diplomaticus ( 1693 ) and Mantissa Codicis ( 1700 ) , to provide a basis for it . |
| 27 | It had been imposed at the height of serious anti-government rioting and pogroms in February 1990 [ see p. 37256 ] , and had been shortened several times , but only now was the security situation deemed by the city 's military commandant to have stabilized . |
| 28 | It had been derailed at the entrance while approaching at speed with a sleeper service from Penzance ; miraculously there were no serious injuries , though much of the track at the station throat had to be relaid . |
| 29 | It had been forged at the outset in a very cordial meeting that the two men had at Colombey in September 1958 . |
| 30 | When I queried the decision I was told that it had been taken at the very highest level , as a result of information not available to me . ’ |