Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Whenever there was something amiss in the district she wondered where her brothers had been at the time , and as she had been making her way to Sainsbury 's this thought had yet again crossed her mind . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At seven-twenty that same morning , Scott had been at the site of an unusual hit-and-run story : two older men had been killed and another injured by a police patrol car . |
| 5 | Ken had been at the auditions that Michael Codron organized , when he was looking for a feed for Williams . |
| 6 | Half the force had been at the match , of course , although that was hardly an excuse . |
| 7 | Blanche asked if Blufton had been at the farewell party the night before . |
| 8 | For ten years Law had been at the heart of the party 's reactions to political events , largely because his own views mirrored those of his followers almost exactly . |
| 9 | Eva had been at the International College for Officers for five years . |
| 10 | If only Nubenehem remembered it , then at least he could establish for certain which girl had been at the City of Dreams . |
| 11 | ‘ I am satisfied that there are no grounds on which I can say that these charges are bad , but with regard to the equity of redemption I am satisfied on the evidence that what Mrs. Wardman did was at the request of and in reliance on her daughter , and under her influence . |
| 12 | Sidacai would not know that Burun had been at the back of it all , of course , and either way he would owe his life to the Merkuts . |
| 13 | Matthew had been at the Plaza for a week now , with scarcely a moment to call his own . |
| 14 | Rachel Sims ( Mrs Miller ) is still serving with the Metropolitan Police Force , and for the last few years had been at the rank of inspector , until recently holding the post of Staff Officer to the Deputy Assistant Commissioner in charge of the North West London . |
| 15 | Nine-year-old Joanne had been at the fete helping to give pony rides to help raise funds for the Longeval Animal Sanctuary Trust , which is run by her mother , Cindy . |
| 16 | He and Adam had been at the same school , though he was a bit older . |
| 17 | Joe had been at the pub that evening , and when he arrived home just before ten , he found her on the floor . |
| 18 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 19 | The boy told us that his dog had been at the head of the pack from the start , biting the boar 's heels and almost bringing it down . |
| 20 | Suppose Mrs. McLoughlin had been at the scene of the accident ; according to conventionalism she would have a legal right to recover in virtue of past decisions . |
| 21 | After the 1987 election , scarcely more than a tenth ( eleven per cent ) of MPs had been at the school . |
| 22 | Another man had been at the table for some time but Beales only looked at him at this point , curious to know who MacQuillan was with . |
| 23 | Cornwall had been at the fore-front of the Spanish wars and indeed , the incident which sparked off the war took place at Fowey and Saltash . |
| 24 | Annie Templeman had been at the black and white ball for five minutes , and it was five minutes too long . |
| 25 | Wearying though the journey had been at the time — even humiliating in respect of his being drawn in a litter — in retrospect it seemed full of excitement , a time when one knew not what would happen next or what lay around the next corner . |
| 26 | the reasons why the item involved was at the location ; |
| 27 | The feelings of Sixties youth had been at the centre of Crawford 's most successful screen characters , but his third film with director Richard Lester was to incense the older generation in a way that no film had done before . |
| 28 | This means that the total level of unemployment exceeds the natural level — i.e. the level of unemployment which would still have existed even if the real wage had been at the level ( W/P ) 0 which cleared the labour market . |
| 29 | Sri Lanka had been at the forefront of Asian intellectual thinking and had gained a good reputation for human rights and civil liberty before these recent years of violence and oppression . |
| 30 | 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 . |