Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been at [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Happily I had been at school with this fellow and was able to contact him on my next leave , and to persuade him that it would be a pity to spoil his good name by killing me . |
| 2 | My standards have definitely dropped since I 've been at home with the baby . |
| 3 | I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it . |
| 4 | Mrs Clinton replied that she 'd been at college with him and they 'd had a very close relationship . |
| 5 | You 've been at school for years and what have you achieved ? |
| 6 | Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with . |
| 7 | By the time InterSpray arrived back in Southampton she had been at sea for 156 days , 14 hours and 9 minutes . |
| 8 | In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year . |
| 9 | She 's been at centre since February and is 77 . |
| 10 | We had been at Orange for a week and were having a kit inspection . |
| 11 | After we had been at school for about three years Arnold Hodson , who had been Consul in Southern Abyssinia , was staying with us at the beginning of the holidays . |
| 12 | They 've been at war with us for three years , you see . ’ |
| 13 | They achieved this by combining two different methods : a longitudinal study , following the same children for four years from before they were able in read until they had been at school for two or three years ; and a training programme that looked at the effect of giving pre-school children specific training in categorising sounds . |
| 14 | She could not help but pause in her misery to be proud of the fact that , without her supervision , they had been at work in the garden . |
| 15 | They had been at supper on that far-distant evening when Mr Curdle , white with panic , had drummed madly on the glass of the hall door . |
| 16 | Contamination of blood and its products for medical use has been virtually eliminated by the testing of blood for antibodies to HIV , by heating blood products to kill HIV and by voluntary withdrawal from blood donation by people who know , or think , they have been at risk of HIV infection . |
| 17 | Hong Kong remains almost as uncompetitive as it has been at anytime since 1986 , and is far less competitive than a year ago . |
| 18 | After he 'd been at Mandru for a while , Lucien learned that Mandru had refused to have any more boys from Por Tanssie after his last purchase from that academy had committed suicide . |
| 19 | He 'd been at school with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen . |
| 20 | Livingstone said he had been at home at the time of the trouble while Hardy said he watched the disturbance , although he did not throw anything . |
| 21 | His mother Diane and girlfriend Donna Williams said he had been at home with them . |
| 22 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |
| 23 | He had been at sea on the Chilean coast most of his life , running cargoes between the isolated ports of the southern waterways , a marvellous-looking old man , big gnarled hands warped with rheumatism and a long wrinkled face , little lines running out from his eyes , which were slitted as though he were permanently peering out into fog . |
| 24 | He had been at School for over 21 years , teaching general subjects . |