Example sentences of "have been [prep] the [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 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By rights he should n't have been in the race at all . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He ought to have been over the moon at her suggestion that she leave him , but instead it seemed to have made him angry . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The point was that she — and the killer-were the only people who knew Puddephat had been to the flat at all . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | 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 . |