Example sentences of "[noun pl] had be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 5 | One of his worst experiences had been at Sunset just a few days before . |
| 6 | The rats had been at it , the body is already half-gnawed . ’ |
| 7 | As though the mice had been at it . |
| 8 | The depute-fiscal , Ron Phillips , said three of the estate workers had been at risk as they demolished a grain store , working on unsecured planks stretched across the top of 20ft deep bins . |
| 9 | Sir Patrick , welcoming Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring , rejected suggestions that relations between both Governments had been at a low ebb after their last talks in July and stressed that both were treating the worsening security situation ‘ very seriously ’ . |
| 10 | The leadership change was widely seen as an attempt to rejuvenate the party , whose fortunes had been at their lowest since it first came to power in 1981 . |
| 11 | Rachel Sims ( Mrs Miller ) is still serving with the Metropolitan Police Force , and for the last few years had been at the rank of inspector , until recently holding the post of Staff Officer to the Deputy Assistant Commissioner in charge of the North West London . |
| 12 | Half of the reported difficulties had been at least five years earlier , and only one in three had involved any question of difficulty over getting credit . |
| 13 | ‘ Some of the breeding monkeys had been at Shamrock for seven or eight years . |
| 14 | They had known they were on the knife edge , and interest rates had been at 8 per cent . |
| 15 | With a bloody chin and an empty stomach , Manville had left his apartment already fuming , only to discover that vandals had been at work on his car during the night . |
| 16 | The fact that both men had been at Livingstone Manor intrigued him . |
| 17 | Their innermost secrets had been at the mercy of the West for a year . |
| 18 | Of the twenty non-royal knights who processed into the chapel , all except for the two former Labour prime ministers had been at public schools . |
| 19 | Women had been at the lowest end of Paul 's spectrum of the human race . |
| 20 | A retired postman who claimed to have been present at the Battle of Studley Constable was interviewed on television , and I still receive the occasional letter from Germans and Americans claiming that fathers or uncles had been at the ‘ battle ’ . |