Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 2 | She had been , it seemed , to endless dinners , parties and weddings on her own , she had been spotted at local cinemas with friends , sitting in the stalls alongside ordinary members of the public , and she had been seen on the town , at pop concerts , and in restaurants , with handsome young men . |
| 3 | If you have been working at extreme depth and then call a halt do n't block the holes up . |
| 4 | In the last two chapters we have been looking at deserted and surviving villages . |
| 5 | Yes , well you are talking about children 's services , but , I , I think if Mr 's going to talk later to this , if you want , but we are absolutely at the moment , we know that eighty nine percent of work at the child care centre is to do with child protection with to deal with it , and by that I mean abuse , physical and sexual abuse , er , concerns about that and a lot of that of course is , is tied up in procedural ways , and we 're dealing with events almost after the situation has er , got going , er , and of course , with the courts , you know that we 've got duties in relation to the courts , that we , we have to fulfil or else we are the subject of criticism from the er , courts , and we have been rapped at various er , times . |
| 6 | We have been working at improving race relations in Britain for over 30 years , under successive Governments . |
| 7 | Not many yards away , dunes and hillocks looked as if they had been dumped at random , each one rising about sixty feet above the plain . |
| 8 | Presumably , after carrying out their assignments , they had been returning at irregular intervals and were now preparing their reports for the final session of the afternoon . |
| 9 | They have been revised at regular intervals and have been improved with members being contracted out of the state earnings-related pension scheme with subsequent savings in national insurance compensation . |
| 10 | Their relationships with each other and with later hominoids is still uncertain , but as they represent different evolutionary trends I am going to distinguish them taxonomically at the level of tribe , where they have been distinguished at generic level before . |
| 11 | ‘ And in a perverse way this is something which may be helpful because they are now beginning to appreciate more clearly the fear that has existed within the Protestant community for the past 20 years as they have been killed at random by the IRA , ’ he added . |
| 12 | ‘ Now , since the Coventry result this week , they have been backed at short odds to win further hundreds of thousands of pounds . ’ |
| 13 | Only when they have been roasted at high temperature do the beans turn from green to brown . |
| 14 | This represents a large increase in productivity compared with pre-1970 levels but it has been achieved at great cost in terms of environmental degradation and human health . |
| 15 | Only the one chosen background material has been used but it has been presented at various distances and angles . |
| 16 | It is , it has been pleaded at various points throughout paragraph three in reciting the history , that at the various meetings between Peter and Mr that no advice of this nature was given and it is the plaintiff 's case that failure to give advice of this nature , even if they did not ask for it , which they did not , was a breach of the professional duty owed to them by the defendant . |
| 17 | In the Littlewoods case in which the court upheld a 12 month restraint allied to protectable business secrets , Lord Denning MR said that the information acquired by Harris was confidential : " It has been acquired at great expense and by great expertise by Littlewoods . |
| 18 | The gas is trapped in well-insulated houses and is produced by the decay of uranium in rocks and soil ; thus it has been measured at high concentrations in parts of Cornwall and Devon . |
| 19 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 20 | Then the really hard part is persuading the public to listen , because the last thing they want to believe is that the charlatan in the white coat is n't going to give them a cure for cancer , a promise he 's been renewing at regular intervals for the past two hundred years . |