Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] have [be] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | . 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 . |
| 2 | Blanche coughed and responded that the police were talking to everyone who had been at the farewell party on the sixth floor , including Parkin and Pargeter . |
| 3 | According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . |
| 4 | Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with . |
| 5 | This had come , very firmly , from Miss Vanessa , while she herself had been at her tapestry . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's the one who 's been at you ! ’ |
| 7 | When will you realise that everything we have is at stake ? |
| 8 | She said it was a routine enquiry and the police were interviewing everybody who had been at Ken O'Mara 's farewell . |
| 9 | When my cousin , who was to be in the locality ( one did not ask why at that time , and it was only after we were both freed of our vows of secrecy more than thirty years later that he told me he had been at Bletchley Park itself ) suggested coming to visit me , Mrs Sugden had no doubt but that this was my ‘ gentleman friend ’ . |
| 10 | There had only ever been one with whom he had been at ease . |
| 11 | He used to sort of let the girls know what they 'd been at . |
| 12 | She knew very well what they had been at ; she and Patten had been the same , when they were young . |
| 13 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 14 | Within 20 years the Prussians had ruined what remained of Danzig 's grain trade and the population of the city had plummeted to what it had been at the end of the fourteenth century . |
| 15 | By then the population of Indians , about a million , was just over a quarter what it had been at the time of the European colonizations of the sixteenth century . |