Example sentences of "had been [verb] at the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of 1782 Gibson , the new estate manager for Sir Michael le Fleming , wrote to his master informing that a new steward had been appointed at the Coniston Mines on the 10th of November . |
| 2 | Many forest landowners were in fact heavily amerced by Passelewe : in 1264 the Abbot of Bruern paid 500 marks for acquittance of all the trespasses of which he had been convicted at the Oxford Forest Eyre in 1245 . |
| 3 | Minton explained that he had recognised him from a self-portrait that had been exhibited at the AIA Gallery in London . |
| 4 | Two formica sculptures by Richard Artschwager , ‘ Book II ( Nike ) ’ ( lot 38 , est. $150–200,000 ) and ‘ Chair ’ ( lot 40 , est. $80–100,000 ) , both of which had been exhibited at the Saatchi Collection last summer , sold inexpensively for $100,000 ( £55,600 ) and $50,000 ( £27,800 ) respectively . |
| 5 | 10–11 Donald Urquhart who had been teaching at the Lotts school left to become a student at Edinburgh University and was succeeded by Malcolm McPhail . |
| 6 | A commitment in principle to aid countries in this category had been made at the Houston G-7 summit in July [ for which see p. 37629 ] . |
| 7 | Later in that decade the British media announced , with some pride , that the eminent scientist Sir John Cockroft was ‘ 90 per-cent certain ’ that controlled thermonuclear fusion had been achieved at the Harwell Laboratory . |
| 8 | On a walking holiday in the Spanish mountains , Jeremy had been staying at the Elola climbers ' refuge and had left there two weeks before to spend a day taking photographs . |
| 9 | Stephen Smith had been staying at the Hallerton House Children 's Home in Cheltenham since July . |
| 10 | Tim Roberts , prosecuting , said Floyd had been arrested at the Darlington bus station ten minutes after the attempted robbery and it was obvious to the police he had been drinking . |
| 11 | The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) signed an historic commercial agreement with the Russian Space Agency on June 18 , the basis for which had been established at the June summit between US President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin [ see pp. 38985-86 ] . |
| 12 | The Cathedral , the Nuns ' House , the City Clock and Uncle Pumblechook 's residence had been duly venerated , and a luncheon had been provided at the Bull Hotel for the benefit of the Lionisers and an odd and uncomfortable collection of those senior residents of Rochester who still remembered Mr Dickens . |
| 13 | Also discussed in Minsk were the issue of a joint interstate television company ( the ex-Soviet Ostankino company being sharply criticized for failing to draft a charter , as had been agreed at the May Tashkent summit — see p. 38922 ) , transport , health , the environment and division of ex-Soviet property . |
| 14 | The meeting broke up , however , without any agreement on a cut in production , which might have pushed up prices , meaning that OPEC retained the official total production ceiling of 22,086,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) which had been agreed at the November 1989 meeting [ see p. 37053 ] . |
| 15 | She had been working at the Hopeland missionary camp , helping educate teenage boys . |
| 16 | Apparently Mr. Dolman had been working at The Albion Hotel , fell from a very tall ladder and was killed . |
| 17 | He had been interrogated at the Comando di Legione in Parma before being locked up in the Citadella to await removal to Germany . |
| 18 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
| 19 | He was not the only deaf person connected with the legal profession for Wakefield , Yorkshire , had a fully practising solicitor , Gerald Smith , of the firm Beaumont , Smith and Beaumont , who had been educated at the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , Doncaster . |
| 20 | In London the situation was very similar to those of Glasgow and Edinburgh , particularly in that many deaf adults had been educated at the Old Kent Road Asylum where they received religious instruction from two earnest ministers , the Rev. Henry Mason , Rector of Bermondsey , and the Rev. John Townsend . |