Example sentences of "have been [adv] at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Lord Chancellor , Lord Mackay of Clashfern , has been strangely at odds with the law during this year . |
| 2 | Graham Townsend has been back at work for only 4 weeks . |
| 3 | This important thought has been constantly at odds with the equally influential notion that we are all blank paper at birth , ready to be entirely formed by our society . |
| 4 | The ‘ transition team ’ has been quietly at work in Little Rock , capital of Clinton 's home state Arkansas , mulling policy and future appointments . |
| 5 | They must have been up at Cambridge about the same time . |
| 6 | It was twenty to eleven when you said goodbye to Hatton and Pertwee and even walking none too fast you should have been indoors at home by eleven . |
| 7 | Eleanor Bell ( d.1827 ) has a scarlet velvet upholstered elm case which , with its cherub grip-plates , might have been equally at home in the 1720s were it not for the idiosyncratic decoration of the lid . |
| 8 | He had n't counted on the opposition of Hugh de Tracy 's priestly brother , who should have been safely at home in his monastery , where he could n't cause any trouble . |
| 9 | The Roman Emperor Antonine , while he would have looked in vain for the wall he built across Scotland 2,000 years before , would have been quite at home in the vast amphitheatre of Celtic Park . |
| 10 | He would have been quite at home in those Trafalgar square riots . |
| 11 | This attitude , on the part of their sources , is basically foreign to Marx 's and Engels 's overall work , and one feels they would have been more at home with the work of more modern prehistorians . |
| 12 | It was obvious that Matthew would have been more at home at the little desk by the window , where there was only a kitchen chair to sit on . |
| 13 | He might have been more at home in some of the radical Protestant sects that began to appear in England and — later — in America during the seventeenth century . |
| 14 | THE FOREST COLONIAL folding chair would have been entirely at home on the deck of any of the great ocean liners of the 1830s . |
| 15 | I should have been back at school in Nigeria . |
| 16 | Since his sly suggestions of Thursday midnight she had been unremittingly at war with him , though they still ostensibly shared a bed . |
| 17 | The Muses have been traditionally at war with Christ , ever since the period of late classical antiquity , when Jerome and Augustine both viewed literary excellence with the gravest suspicion . |
| 18 | Since I have been away at Scarborough on holiday I got the YEP every day and the special Leeds edition that they do every season . |
| 19 | I have been on at Desmond about it , as a matter of fact , which I suppose is what she wanted . |
| 20 | The children have been back at school for only a month and already I am exhausted . |
| 21 | Apparently he 's been down at Streatley since the weekend , but Joanne says he should be back today . |