Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with . |
| 16 | They had helped with their mother 's care when she had been at home , and taken part in planning her funeral . |
| 17 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 18 | It was news to her , she had been at home all the time and her husband had taken another ‘ wife ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The profession was too professional , a long study , and she had been at university , a giddy time . |
| 22 | Although , as for this last speculation , Harriet could not help thinking that if Liza was still as distressed as she had been at home , she would have been even more likely to let her mother know , for she had never before been one to suffer in silence . |
| 23 | She stayed in Danzig five or six weeks , to her daughter-in-law 's horror and embarrassment , since she had her cryings and roarings ‘ as well as if she had been at home ’ . |
| 24 | She had been at her worst between Spanish Fork and Dead Rat , when Elder Seth and the voices of the dead were arguing inside her head . |
| 25 | When she had been at art college , but that was just kids hunting for trophies , and they had n't meant a toss to her . |
| 26 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 27 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 28 | But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time . |
| 29 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 30 | Just as well that she had been at least spared the ordeal of having to face him this morning . |