Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 2 | Since I had been at the university we had seen far less of each other . |
| 3 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 4 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 5 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 6 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 7 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 8 | She retreated round the stall ; she had been at the front , helping a customer to choose something from what remained unsold . |
| 9 | We had been at the wedding a full hour before I began to be curious about the whereabouts of the bride and groom . |
| 10 | The questions posed by the existence of the asylums thus remained as unanswered at the end of these closures as they had been at the inception of their planning in 1978 , when NETRHA officers too were also beginning the difficult task of addressing them . |
| 11 | They had been at the airport for six hours , waiting for a flight , any flight out of Iraq , going anywhere . |
| 12 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 13 | It had been a puzzle that they could be knocked around in interaction with each other and yet emerge unscathed , the same as they had been at the beginning . |
| 14 | After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective . |
| 15 | Thus lone parents were both relatively and absolutely worse off by the end of the 1980s than they had been at the start of the decade ( see also Roll , 1988a , 1988b ) . |
| 16 | Christmas of 1919 seems to have been vastly more festive than it had been at the workhouse in , say , the Dickensian days of 1844 . |
| 17 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |
| 18 | From the thin , wretched creature it had been at the beginning of the siege it had become quite fat , for recently it had succeeded in eating two small lap-dogs which had unwisely fallen asleep in its presence . |
| 19 | His kingdom had come some considerable way from the remote and backward region it had been at the beginning of the seventh century . |
| 20 | If it had been at the border they 'd have given him five or even ten . ’ |
| 21 | USSR Interior Minister Boris Pugo explained that it had been at the request of a " national salvation committee " formed by the pro-Moscow Lithuanian CP on Jan. 11 , after its members were allegedly beaten up outside parliament as they protested against " anti-Soviet slander " in the media . |
| 22 | By then the population of Indians , about a million , was just over a quarter what it had been at the time of the European colonizations of the sixteenth century . |
| 23 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 24 | Within 20 years the Prussians had ruined what remained of Danzig 's grain trade and the population of the city had plummeted to what it had been at the end of the fourteenth century . |
| 25 | He would surprise everyone by getting a new speech right , but then show that it had been at the expense of other sections of dialogue . |
| 26 | In short , Ulster remained more of a violent backwater , removed from the mainstream of British social development , at the end of the 1970s than it had been at the start of that troubled decade . |
| 27 | Thereafter it rose again to about £91,000 per annum in the last five years of the reign , little more than it had been at the start . |
| 28 | As a result , by the end of the decade , output per person in manufacturing was half as much again as it had been at the start of the decade . |
| 29 | Then he remembered ; appropriately enough it had been at the party when Slater had first introduced Graham and Sara to each other . |
| 30 | But he underlined sharply too , how discouraged and disappointed he had been at the inability of his own Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development to sort out their roles in the scheme of things . |