Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] at [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 2 | they would allow me half now erm I 've been looking at one particular church , one denomination er , which is the Methodist Church , although it has been said already here this afternoon , or this morning rather there are an overall erm joint style with Methodist and with United Reform Church and erm I have personally the Methodist of last year , last September where it gives and also erm , mileage recommendations . |
| 3 | He said she 'd been raped at 18 by a Lebanese man in London . |
| 4 | She had been found at two that afternoon by a party searching the Pertsey and north-west region of Vangmoor . |
| 5 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
| 6 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 7 | Jarrett , who has a personal best of 13.04 , has been summer training in Portugal and already this season he has been timed at 13.33 … if the NIAAF can arrange to bring Jackson along to Belfast , it will be another clash to savour . |
| 8 | The population of little more than 7,000 , indicated by the total of only 1,414 taxpayers in 1525 , seems on the low side , and since it has been estimated at 10,625 ( exclusive of aliens ) in 1569 , a figure closer to 10,000 would be more realistic for the 1520s . |
| 9 | It had been made at one of those long , heart-searching breakfast conversations over pancakes and imported Vermont maple syrup . |
| 10 | Wexford had seen that glass and teak lamp in a Kingsmarkham shop and noted it had been priced at twenty-five pounds , one and a quarter times Hatton 's weekly wage . |
| 11 | It had been thought at one time that the restriction did not apply to an attack on members of a party as a whole , or where the motive was simply the provision of information and not the demoting of a candidate , but Luft adopts an extensive interpretation of the scope of the provision . |
| 12 | Naturally , the manager had more details to offer : the car hired had been a red Cavalier , Registration H 106 XMT ; it had been hired at 1.45 p.m. and returned at some time after the offices had closed at 6.30 p.m. , with the keys pushed through the special letter-box , as requested . |
| 13 | She had been right in her assumption about the photograph — she was sure now that it had been taken at one of those supper parties , and without prior warning . |
| 14 | James said he was told after the accident by the police that he had been recorded at 153 mph . |