Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exam educates youngsters cheaply up to a level that is not reached in other countries until someone has been at university for a year . |
| 2 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
| 3 | I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school . |
| 4 | Erm and at that ti but other than that , mind you I su I suppose that if , if I 'd been at home I should have probably been expected to be in , but I do n't think I should have been locked out . |
| 5 | Happily I had been at school with this fellow and was able to contact him on my next leave , and to persuade him that it would be a pity to spoil his good name by killing me . |
| 6 | I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work . |
| 7 | My standards have definitely dropped since I 've been at home with the baby . |
| 8 | ‘ Too often I 've been at home practising with a tournament still going on . |
| 9 | I 've been at work all week . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been at sea a long time . |
| 11 | I 've been at boarding-school since I was eight because my parents live abroad . |
| 12 | I 've been at bottom . |
| 13 | I 've been at trade shows before , but this is the big one . |
| 14 | I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it . |
| 15 | The full effects of the theological liberalism which had been at work since the nineteenth century came into their own in the English-speaking world after the publication of Honest to God ( Robinson 1963 ) . |
| 16 | However , the Heilbron Report made no proposals to change the law on the issue which had been at stake in the Morgan case — that a man could escape a rape conviction if he thought that the woman was consenting whether she was or not . |
| 17 | ‘ So you would , if you 'd been at home , ’ Roman rapped , his quietness discarded for an anger that made Claudia shiver . |
| 18 | ‘ She 'd been at work , she said , when she went into labour . |
| 19 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
| 20 | Helen did n't help herself or increase the possibility of peace on earth by saying she 'd been at Dad 's Chislehurst gig . |
| 21 | Mrs Clinton replied that she 'd been at college with him and they 'd had a very close relationship . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , you 've been at work all day ; we have n't seen you to tell you , ’ broke in Mrs Jones again . |
| 23 | While you 've been at work ? |
| 24 | You 've been at school for years and what have you achieved ? |
| 25 | When she had been at art college , but that was just kids hunting for trophies , and they had n't meant a toss to her . |
| 26 | The profession was too professional , a long study , and she had been at university , a giddy time . |
| 27 | Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was years since she had ridden a bike too , not since she had been at school and had cycled home each day . |
| 30 | By the time InterSpray arrived back in Southampton she had been at sea for 156 days , 14 hours and 9 minutes . |