Example sentences of "[verb] [be] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been at it for the past half-hour , ever since she 'd arrived to interrupt Rory 's precious sunbathing break . |
| 2 | She 'd been at it since tea-time , since lunch , since she got up . |
| 3 | And of course a lot of the engineering was on textile machinery and er I did n't , I just would n't go back to it after I 'd been at it about a couple of years . |
| 4 | And er we cast during the dark days of the war , when toys were n't available , we a few older blokes er apprentices used to I remember being at it for a couple of hard week we had a hard week , well evening during the evenings anyway . |
| 5 | We had been at it for three months now . |
| 6 | They had been at it for over two and a half hours before the searchlight finally picked out the slumped body in the yard of an abandoned farm at over a thousand metres on the slopes of Mount Guffone . |
| 7 | I can get no sense into him nor out of him , though I 've been at him without relenting for days . ’ |
| 8 | But I 've been at it for 15 years . |
| 9 | Anyway , the Wild Wood is seething with them , and in its endless darkness the beasties multiply ; they 've no enemies to control them , and they 've been at it for centuries ! |
| 10 | We 've been at it since six . ’ |
| 11 | The baskets measure an ample 15 inches by 13 inches , and 10 inches to the top of the handle , and are hand-made in Somerset by P H Coate and Son who have been at it for a century and a half . |
| 12 | She 's been at him for years . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , I have ; but when he confronts Richard he will be told that he could be taken to court ; he 's been at me for years . |
| 14 | Michael had a nice fiddle going , and he 's been at it for over a year now . |
| 15 | And you need n't have any feeling of compunction about him , for he 's been at it for years on the side , and you know it . |