Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 3 | The applause from the crowd round the green must have been heard back at the clubhouse . |
| 4 | Production had been building up at Courtaulds ' $85 million plant near Mobile , Alabama , since June , 1992 . |
| 5 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 6 | Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all . |
| 7 | Most significantly , and as far as most English observers were concerned most ominously , diplomatic relations with Rome which had been broken off at the Reformation were now restored . |
| 8 | Two days of high-level bilateral talks , held in Madrid , the Spanish capital , on Feb. 14-15 , ended in an agreement signed by the United Kingdom and Argentina to restore full diplomatic relations , which had been broken off at the beginning of the Falklands ( Malvinas ) war in April 1982 . |
| 9 | Talks in Rome were reported on Feb. 1 to have been broken off at the end of January by the South African-backed rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) which accused the government of violating the ceasefire agreement signed on Dec. 1 . |
| 10 | Relations with Iraq had been broken off at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and US diplomatic business in Baghdad was handled by a US Interests section at the Belgian embassy ( headed by the author of an authoritative work on Kurdish affairs , William Eagleton Jnr ) . |
| 11 | Beaumont bought Jodami cheaply in Ireland for Yorkshire businessman John Yeadon after the horse had been broken in at the Curragh as a four-year-old . |
| 12 | Under its headline ‘ Mercantile Tricycles Denounced ’ , the Graphic described how , in default of paying a 10 shillings fine plus costs , this cycling desperado was sentenced to seven days ' imprisonment — and what is more , poor Thomas Duff had been estimated by the police to have been rattling along at somewhere between 8 and 10 miles per hour . |
| 13 | The egg has been gleaming up at me , cold and slippery as an oyster , daring me to eat it . |
| 14 | But you 've also got that that that you notice well down the erm the expenditure on a project , that you 're gon na have to have to go back and change something that should have been sorted out at the start . |
| 15 | Questioned , Swayne stated that the animal had been let out at approximately 9.30 on Saturday evening and was crying to be let in at a little before midnight . |
| 16 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
| 17 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 18 | He had been picked out at an identification parade only after his photograph had been shown to the prosecution witnesses — three criminals who got shorter sentences for helping the police . |
| 19 | The avenues explored in applying neural computing to these three applications and the results from these have been reported on at the regular monthly Club meetings . |
| 20 | Wycliffe had been booked in at the one hotel which remained open through the year . |
| 21 | ‘ By the look of what 's on the meter some sucker 's been driving around at ground level . |
| 22 | Remember also , the pitfalls for children of ‘ tickly ’ yarns ( I hate that jumper , it tickles ) , of necks being too tight ( I 'll never wear that thing again ) when ears have almost been severed off at bedtime ! |
| 23 | Finally , during my time in post I have lectured to every one of the Senior Engineering Management courses that have been carried out at RAF Cranwell . |
| 24 | Field programmes including drilling and sampling have now been carried out at Sonora , Mexico , in Barbados , in the north-western dry zone of Sri Lanka , and near Madras , India . |
| 25 | However , tests have been carried out at Manchester University , England , to find out whether we also possess a natural magnetic sense . |
| 26 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 27 | Much of the groundwork to date on E-mail and Broadcast — a handy message service — has been carried out at little cost . |
| 28 | In most of the foregoing discussion we have assumed that the deformations which we have related to stresses have been carried out at constant temperature . |
| 29 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if there are currently any contracts with the Atomic Energy Authority for research into the fabrication of weapons components using plutonium ; and whether any such work has been carried out at Harwell . |
| 30 | Over the past 12 years , a series of large scale surveys of the British mechanical engineering industry have been carried out at CURDS . |