Example sentences of "they have been [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were there only because they 'd been stopped at gunpoint from going any farther — by the Turkish army , a key NATO ally of the US and Britain . |
| 2 | They 've also blocked off the railway line , and British drivers say they 've been threatened at knife point . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They had been trained at college to preach Western-style sermons based on abstract thinking arranged in linear form . |
| 6 | They had been living at Riverstown for two months before the first invitation came . |
| 7 | She preached about the passover , a subject they had been studying at Bible camp , and obviously made a good impression . |
| 8 | On this particular day , they had been shooting at Taos and at the end of it they dropped some acid and took off with two other friends to visit the nearby tomb of D.H . |
| 9 | They had been sitting at home ( unheated , before Anna put in the plumbing and the armchairs ) with cousins and priests coming to black coffee now and then while the prince was out on his horse or at the club . |
| 10 | Since 1982 they have been living at Grass Gars Farm , Ulpha , Broughton in Furness , in the Lake District — bought with a bridging loan , until Mountain Ash was sold in November 1984 . |
| 11 | But they have been sneering at America since Sidney Smith , François Mauriac and George Grosz and will go on doing so long after Harold Pinter is gone . |