Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 2 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 3 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 4 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 5 | And , they were often not released until they 'd been at this casual ward for two days . |
| 6 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 7 | But what they produced were at best permanent monuments of erudition on which we still draw , and at worst giant-sized pamphlets which are now read , if at all , only for their interest as literature . |
| 8 | Whilst everything that Becker did was at white heat and lightning speed , with drastic simplifications , Squirrell delighted in working with extremely precise topographical accuracy . |
| 9 | But perhaps the most crucial sign that headway was being made into new territory came when the West Somerset District Council , which included Hinkley Point , came out firmly against Hinkley C. Its influential policy committee chairman was married to a nuclear worker and its previous attitude had been at best neutral . |
| 10 | This was a task for which Wilson Jr , who had been at best an indifferent driver himself , was palpably unfitted . |
| 11 | For most of the leaders among the Owenites the distinction only showed itself in their recognition that the Bill had done nothing for working people ; that since the prime need , as they saw it , was to act directly to remove the evils of a system which grievously oppressed the lives of working people , the Bill had been at best an irrelevance , at worst a distraction . |
| 12 | The boy had been at best lethargic , uncooperative , at worst disruptive to the point of actual physical violence . |
| 13 | Sylvie suddenly remembered how uncomfortable in his own skin Leo had been at fourteen . |
| 14 | But life was over ; it had been left irretrievably behind before the war , and with it an animation which could never be resurrected , if it had been at all . |
| 15 | Labelled ‘ bankrupt ’ the whole family which had been at one with their neighbours found themselves set apart . |
| 16 | It had been at one time , going back over a hundred and fifty years , it had been what they called a combination poorhouse . |
| 17 | She had been at one of the best State schools in England , where she would still be , no doubt , but for what Toby had heard referred to as an Incident . |
| 18 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 19 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 20 | He had been at such pains . |
| 21 | The tension between them , the sexual feeling , had been at such a pitch . |
| 22 | He was " more reconciled and calm " than he had been at thirty ; " age had not made him wiser " but I have never been wise " . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He went on to say that they had been at great pains to build up an efficient fifth-column unit and should not be expected to give up their best men as soon as they were trained . |
| 25 | At Pemberley the ‘ many family portraits … could have little to fix the attention of a stranger ’ ; at Sotherton they are ‘ no longer any thing to any body but Mrs Rushworth , who had been at great pains to learn all that the housekeeper could teach ’ . |
| 26 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 27 | The Reverend Peter Brown , Convener of the Social Matters Committee for the Orkney Presbytery , began to investigate the actions of the Evangelical Charismatic Movement in Orkney , and whether any members of the Orkney Christian Fellowship had been at that seminar . |
| 28 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 29 | They had known they were on the knife edge , and interest rates had been at 8 per cent . |
| 30 | 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 . |