Example sentences of "[verb] been at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stolen Glances features pictures by ten lesbian photographers and has been at the council-funded Arts Centre for two weeks . |
| 2 | A number of issues are raised in the paper , but one of the companies which has been at the receiving end and has been canvassed for views , says : ‘ Part of the document looks as if it has been drafted by British Gas . ’ |
| 3 | I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth . |
| 4 | The strongest activity has been at the bottom end of the market , where there is considerable pent-up demand from first-time buyers who have delayed buying over the past few years , for fear that house prices would fall further . |
| 5 | We had originally intended to freeze our budget at precisely the level that it has been at the last two years for a variety of reasons we have decided that it is sensible to actually bring it down yet further . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city . |
| 8 | But er that was , that was very much er clutching at things that might have been at the last moment . |
| 9 | It must have been at the very time of the proceedings against Myln that the archbishop of St Andrews received the earl of Argyll 's answers to his letter of admonition of 31 March 1558 , in which he warned the earl of the dangers of his support for Protestantism . |
| 10 | ‘ Though we knew by the place where he had fallen that it must have been at the very summit just as the path runs down the cliff to Kinghorn Manor . ’ |
| 11 | Singer Richard Fairbrass , stormed at the duo at No.12 with Magic Friend : ‘ They could n't have been at the same show . |
| 12 | From having been at the very centre of public affairs , the Frost family sank back into almost impenetrable obscurity . |
| 13 | Having been at the Methodist conference last week , or fattist . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's supposed to have been at the Versorelli Institute in Geneva from the fourth to the fourteenth of November . |
| 15 | Anthony Morris , QC , told Manchester Crown Court that Mr Foster died because he had the ‘ misfortune ’ to have been at the same secondary school as the gunman and had known him well for four years . |
| 16 | Eva had been at the International College for Officers for five years . |
| 17 | Women had been at the lowest end of Paul 's spectrum of the human race . |
| 18 | Annie Templeman had been at the black and white ball for five minutes , and it was five minutes too long . |
| 19 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 20 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 21 | This reflection went far to set up Harry again in his own esteem , for it meant that Isambard had been sure of his victim 's obstinate silence even under torture ; more sure of it , if the truth were told , than Harry himself had been at the worst moment . |
| 22 | The torrent here was almost as fearsome as it had been at the original crossing point , but not so deep . |
| 23 | Bluebird , which was rented by a group of nurses from the Waterloo Hospital , had been at the ready , and when the birth was imminent they 'd seen to it that the ambulance arrived promptly . |
| 24 | Mr Richardson , whose home was on The Promenade , Llanfairfechan , had been at the Old Court for six months because his wife was in hospital . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He and Adam had been at the same school , though he was a bit older . |
| 27 | He was three years older than Adam and though they had been at the same school , Highgate , they had not been friends then . |
| 28 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 29 | A Welsh dealer had been at the fair last year but had not returned this year , much to the disappointment of many of the visitors . |
| 30 | This is then rotated and scaled , making the ‘ ball ’ appear to bounce in the out of the screen ( Sounds like you 've been at the loony juice again to me — Ed ) . |