Example sentences of "[noun] had be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ari found it was strangely comforting to be told how confused Ewan had been at the time he 'd turned his back on his family . |
| 2 | Whenever there was something amiss in the district she wondered where her brothers had been at the time , and as she had been making her way to Sainsbury 's this thought had yet again crossed her mind . |
| 3 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 4 | Fear had been at its pitch during the first few hours and days . |
| 5 | Once inside those walls , it really was another world , more than fifteen square kilometres of streets bordered by the crumbling walls of houses , public buildings , cemeteries and reservoirs , some with bits and pieces of bone lying exposed where long-dead looters and grave-robbers had been at work . |
| 6 | At seven-twenty that same morning , Scott had been at the site of an unusual hit-and-run story : two older men had been killed and another injured by a police patrol car . |
| 7 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 8 | The Dimblebys had been at a loss for words . |
| 9 | When Les Dawson was a guest on the show , we discovered that he and Ken had been at school together , and Les could not resist reminding him of those happy days : ‘ The school we went to was so poor , if you put your hand up they thought it was a hold up . |
| 10 | Ken had been at the auditions that Michael Codron organized , when he was looking for a feed for Williams . |
| 11 | Half the force had been at the match , of course , although that was hardly an excuse . |
| 12 | He seemed to be suggesting that once Balbinder had been at Cedars for a while , he might be capable of re-entering mainstream education at middle school transfer . |
| 13 | Blanche asked if Blufton had been at the farewell party the night before . |
| 14 | Although it was found that the defendants had been at fault , Atkinson J. considered that , irrespective of this , the defendants would have been liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 15 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 16 | One of his worst experiences had been at Sunset just a few days before . |
| 17 | He looked at her doubtfully , as troubled at leaving her with the distressed child as Edna had been at leaving Liza with Celia a short time before . |
| 18 | The rats had been at it , the body is already half-gnawed . ’ |
| 19 | For ten years Law had been at the heart of the party 's reactions to political events , largely because his own views mirrored those of his followers almost exactly . |
| 20 | But perhaps the most crucial sign that headway was being made into new territory came when the West Somerset District Council , which included Hinkley Point , came out firmly against Hinkley C. Its influential policy committee chairman was married to a nuclear worker and its previous attitude had been at best neutral . |
| 21 | Ella silenced her arguments in one fell swoop by producing the money she had been saving from her grant all the months Eva had been at university . |
| 22 | Eva had been at the International College for Officers for five years . |
| 23 | Nancy had been at her wits ' end and nobody seemed able to help . |
| 24 | Tracey Cole had been at Oxford University for just eight days when her body was found in her study bedroom at Oxford University . |
| 25 | His father wrote a regular monthly letter and , after Frank had been at Rowden for two years , one of the letters told him that his grandmother Blanche Arbuthnot had died , and left him all her money and her house in Meath . |
| 26 | The boy had been at best lethargic , uncooperative , at worst disruptive to the point of actual physical violence . |
| 27 | As though the mice had been at it . |
| 28 | If only Nubenehem remembered it , then at least he could establish for certain which girl had been at the City of Dreams . |
| 29 | The MQM and the PPP had been at loggerheads since October 1989 , when the MQM ended its 11-month old alliance with the PPP and joined the Combined Opposition Parties [ see p. 37043 ] . |
| 30 | If Liam Brady had been at Windsor Park yesterday he would n't have hesitated to reach for his cheque-book . |