Example sentences of "that [pron] had been [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game . |
| 2 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 3 | Her boast was that she had been dancing at every RAF and American air force station within a 30-mile radius , and that she would n't look at any male with a rank lower than Squadron Leader or the American equivalent . |
| 4 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 5 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 6 | But when they were late in arriving , Mr Stokes rang the agent and was told that they had been impounded at Dover for five weeks while checks were made for drugs . |
| 7 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
| 8 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 9 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |
| 10 | It was depressing to discover that the warmth of Alexei 's concern was a sham , and that it had been aimed at making him susceptible to ideas which would lead to the industrialisation of Tarvaras . |
| 11 | She had been right in her assumption about the photograph — she was sure now that it had been taken at one of those supper parties , and without prior warning . |
| 12 | When I queried the decision I was told that it had been taken at the very highest level , as a result of information not available to me . ’ |
| 13 | The Prime Minister and the Lord Chancellor later in the year protested with apparent truthfulness that they had been quite unaware that it had been passed at all ! . |
| 14 | James said he was told after the accident by the police that he had been recorded at 153 mph . |
| 15 | But if he had been in the water for some time , it was unlikely that he had been killed at the spot where his body had fetched up , and equally unlikely that the weapon which killed him was there to find . |
| 16 | ELBC radio ( Monrovia ) said that he had been seen at Man in Côte d'Ivoire , landing aboard a Cessna light aircraft with relatives , en route for Burkina . |
| 17 | When Tom told his grandmother he was moving out of her house and confessed — because since the accident he had also stopped lying , could not be bothered with prevarication — that he had been busking at stations , she told him she was horrified , she was disappointed in him . |
| 18 | I knew that he had been barracked at times , but I did not realize that he was so sensitive … |
| 19 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 20 | Marital work was accepted by these parents in an effort to solve the problem , and progress was made once the father finally admitted that he had been told at work that he was too domineering and was unable to delegate responsibility to his juniors . |
| 21 | In 1302–3 his son and heir John alleged that he had been murdered at the instigation of Walter Langton , bishop of Coventry [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | It was true that he had been educated at a public school , but he managed to disguise this handicap very well . |
| 23 | She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock . |
| 24 | Joyce added that he had been informed at Galway , ‘ where I was stationed ’ , that he possessed the same rights and privileges as if ‘ of natural British birth ’ . |
| 25 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |