Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 2 | She always was a bit ‘ igh and mighty for the likes of us , but I did ‘ ear mention that Kitty had been to see her at London University . ’ |
| 3 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 4 | Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment . |
| 5 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
| 6 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
| 7 | This suggested they had been attacked one at a time , and taken by surprise , which reinforced the verdict that two and not four men were involved . |
| 8 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 9 | I take it you have n't been keeping her at home and just not sent a note ? |
| 10 | His original plan had been to sell her at the Sonepur Mela in Bihar , the world 's largest animal fair and their final destination . |
| 11 | perhaps the Company 's lack of comment on its own future , which must increasingly have been worrying them at the turn of the century . |
| 12 | Though she was completely covered she might just as well have been wearing nothing at all . |
| 13 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 14 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 15 | The treatment was investigated in a co-operative study involving many surgeons : by 1950 some 1800 cases had been reported , leaving little doubt that treatment had been found which at least delayed the progress of an otherwise intractable cancer . |
| 16 | He 's costing me a fortune in tights — I wondered who 'd been taking them at first . |
| 17 | This hip had been paining me at times again , but while we were in Wales it decided to play up properly . |
| 18 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |
| 19 | However , some on-the-job training , in skills such as cash handling or food preparation , is usually given to seasonal workers and this allows them to be moved into tasks which would have been denied them at the start of their employment . |
| 20 | I was surprised because she 'd been throwing herself at him all day and not getting anywhere much . ’ |
| 21 | The vendor of these two pictures had previously consigned them to Thomas Gibson who had been offering them at considerably higher prices . |