Example sentences of "have been [prep] [art] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nicky has been round the houses at club level and that helps . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd been over the pub at dinnertime . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd been to a party at Cipriani 's in The Strand which went on all hours . |
| 4 | He tried to deny he 'd been to the village at first , but when I told him I 'd watched his every move he said he 'd gone for toothpaste and avoided our constables because he did n't think they 'd allow him to go out . ’ |
| 5 | Yes , but you 'd been to the flat at about ten thirty in the evening before was there anything you heard or seen at the flat to indicate it might be a hostage situation ? |
| 6 | Or , if prototype wingflaps worked to break the animal 's fall , you can not say " Below a certain size the flaps would have been of no use at all " . |
| 7 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 8 | This conservatism was arguably excessive , given the subsequent relatively trouble-free experience of most of the innovations in power station design which might realistically have been on the agenda at this time . |
| 9 | If the action project were succeeding in sustaining at home people who without its services would have been in an institution at an earlier date , then we would expect the action sample clients still at home at six months and 12 months to be more disadvantaged in the possession of factors likely to affect home care potential . |
| 10 | By rights he should n't have been in the race at all . |
| 11 | But he admitted to a great sense of satisfaction at having been in the job at a time when the world had ‘ seen the most rapid political changes in the past 50 years ’ , from the end of the Cold War to the dismemberment of the Soviet Union , and the appointment of former POCs like Vaclav Havel to become heads of state . |
| 12 | The only item in the Christie 's sale to have been on the ship at the moment of sinking , it was written by Mrs Esther Hart and tucked into her husband 's jacket . |
| 13 | He ought to have been over the moon at her suggestion that she leave him , but instead it seemed to have made him angry . |
| 14 | It 's alleged the car was stolen ; a 16 year old youth alledged to have been in the car at the time , is on police bail . |
| 15 | The point was that she — and the killer-were the only people who knew Puddephat had been to the flat at all . |
| 16 | She would go back to Sea House and tell Stephen that his father had been on a train at the time of his mother 's death . |
| 17 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 18 | In the light of this Constantius is perhaps unlikely to have been in a position to destroy Wallia completely in 416 : Stilicho , who had been in a position at least as strong , had failed to destroy Alaric . |
| 19 | He remembered other times when he had been in a plane at night with his wife and daughter . |
| 20 | The doctor said there was nothing wrong with me , but the Operation Raleigh people rang to warn us : they had been in the rainforest at the same time as us , and 50 to 60 per cent of their people had gone down with river blindness . |
| 21 | I read the reports of interviews the police had had with people who had been near the river at Chiswick , Barnes , and Hammersmith , on the night of June 5 — nobody had seen a drunk being assisted from a car , or a heavy bundle being carried towards a boat . |
| 22 | Anyway I 'm not signing off until about 5.30 tonight so I 'll keep waiting and reading those messages until then — after I 've been to the pub at dinner time of course ! |
| 23 | Many of the present team have been with the organisation at least since 1974 when Mr d'Ancona , an assistant secretary with the Department of Energy at the time , was asked to implement a political decision to transfer the headquarters of the fledgling organisation from London to Glasgow . |
| 24 | She supports the Christian Democrats ( CDU ) , who until recently have been of no consequence at all in Lauchhammer . |