Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 2 | Maggie immediately thought of the lack of seagulls she 'd noticed when she 'd been down at the sea-front . |
| 3 | They 'd been there at the wedding , when the wine , that water had been turned into wine . |
| 4 | She 'd been there at the time he 'd wanted a woman . |
| 5 | Slorne , who had been up at the back of her cage most of the day as usual , suddenly opened her wings , swung round and dropped down to the front of her cage . |
| 6 | Jean , surely , had been here at the time of the murder . |
| 7 | If International had been around at the time of the Vikings , there 's little doubt whose paint would have been used to keep those marauding longships in prime condition . |
| 8 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 9 | For when he had been there at the end of the war it was very much the preserve of the officer class . |
| 10 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |