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 They 'd been there at the wedding , when the wine , that water had been turned into wine .
3 She 'd been there at the time he 'd wanted a woman .
4 Jean , surely , had been here at the time of the murder .
5 For when he had been there at the end of the war it was very much the preserve of the officer class .
6 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 .
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