Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] at the " in BNC.
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1 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
2 | ‘ Well , I just thought he 'd been at the whisky even more than usual , and ignored him . |
3 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
4 | He 'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city . |
5 | Andy told me Howie and another two locals jumped a couple of travellers who 'd been at the party as well . |
6 | Erm that probably because they 'd been at the bottom so long , er it did n't appear that there was |
7 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
8 | ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on . |
9 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
10 | ‘ T is how I learned that you 'd been at the castle . |
11 | I felt like a Run , so I left my jacket near the Pole I 'd been at the day Diggs had come with the news , and tucked the catapult tightly between my cords and my belt . |
12 | In the week that he 'd been at the helm of the Anpetuwi ship there had been a remarkable change in atmosphere . |
13 | They 'd been at the Nuffield Press in Oxford all their working lives until this week . |
14 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
15 | Nobody was quite sure how many degrees he had started and not finished , not even Boris , but he had been at the place so long he could remember when they used to spell it Freshmen 's Fair . |
16 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
17 | In short , Ulster remained more of a violent backwater , removed from the mainstream of British social development , at the end of the 1970s than it had been at the start of that troubled decade . |
18 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
19 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
20 | Ari found it was strangely comforting to be told how confused Ewan had been at the time he 'd turned his back on his family . |
21 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
22 | After the 1987 election , scarcely more than a tenth ( eleven per cent ) of MPs had been at the school . |
23 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
24 | Part of my later training had been at the hands of an ex-SAS instructor whose absolute priority for survival was evading the enemy ; and with doubt but also awareness of danger I guessed at an enemy above our heads , not a saviour . |
25 | 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 ’ . |
26 | It was not until 1837 that the beautiful pair of wrought-iron gates , which had been at the entrance to Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , were purchased by the Duke of Devonshire for the main entrance to Chiswick House , created as the alternative to the old main entrance off Lord Burlington 's Lane . |
27 | Their innermost secrets had been at the mercy of the West for a year . |
28 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
29 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
30 | Only then did it strike me that there was indeed a role that a further staff member could crucially play here ; that it was , in fact , this very shortage that had been at the heart of all my recent troubles . |