Example sentences of "[pron] had be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 2 | I had been at St Andrew 's House barely a week , when a telegram arrived at my parents ' home : |
| 3 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 4 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
| 5 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 6 | As far as I was concerned , when I had been at Bourn a month I felt I had lived there for years . |
| 7 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 8 | I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work . |
| 9 | If I had been at my gun , I would have been dissected . |
| 10 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 11 | Since I had been at the university we had seen far less of each other . |
| 12 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 13 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 14 | Happily I had been at school with this fellow and was able to contact him on my next leave , and to persuade him that it would be a pity to spoil his good name by killing me . |
| 15 | Someone had been at the office , of course . |
| 16 | It was not until 1837 that the beautiful pair of wrought-iron gates , which had been at the entrance to Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , were purchased by the Duke of Devonshire for the main entrance to Chiswick House , created as the alternative to the old main entrance off Lord Burlington 's Lane . |
| 17 | Labelled ‘ bankrupt ’ the whole family which had been at one with their neighbours found themselves set apart . |
| 18 | The full effects of the theological liberalism which had been at work since the nineteenth century came into their own in the English-speaking world after the publication of Honest to God ( Robinson 1963 ) . |
| 19 | But at all events , the insurmountable obstacle to such planning was the total unwillingness of unions to accept manpower planning which had been at the heart of wartime economic direction . |
| 20 | However , the Heilbron Report made no proposals to change the law on the issue which had been at stake in the Morgan case — that a man could escape a rape conviction if he thought that the woman was consenting whether she was or not . |
| 21 | With Fisher 's appointment as President of the Board ( having a seat in the Cabinet ) came an undertaking that money would be made available for such post-war reconstruction ; and the policy itself was enshrined in legislation to enable the kind of educational expansion within the continuing and adult sectors which had been at the forefront of the Newbolt Committee 's deliberations.5 In practice , however , such expansion was never enacted , despite the ever-increasing reliance of the universities upon state funds ( by 1931 they were receiving slightly over half their income from this source ) , |
| 22 | The president of Daiwa Securities , Japan 's second-largest securities company , resigned on March 11 in connection with a stock scandal which threatened to reignite the controversy over the relationship between brokers and major clients which had been at the root of a series of scandals in mid-1991 [ see pp. 38292 ; 38342-42 ] . |
| 23 | In Essex , a shire which had been at the heart of the 1381 troubles , the peasantry were able to improve their lot after the repression of the revolt . |
| 24 | This reflection went far to set up Harry again in his own esteem , for it meant that Isambard had been sure of his victim 's obstinate silence even under torture ; more sure of it , if the truth were told , than Harry himself had been at the worst moment . |
| 25 | Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with . |
| 26 | They had helped with their mother 's care when she had been at home , and taken part in planning her funeral . |
| 27 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 28 | It was news to her , she had been at home all the time and her husband had taken another ‘ wife ’ . |
| 29 | Back in the main sitting room where she had been at first she was introduced to Antonietta 's husband Gennaro who was the head of the household . |
| 30 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |