Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] be at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
| 2 | I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When I moves to this area just over two years ago I knew no-one , my two older children were at school and , although I enjoyed being at home with my two-year-old toddler , I felt that I was getting past the stage of discussing sleepless nights and dirty nappies ! |
| 5 | Before , I loved being at home but I loved being in work too and I do miss it , the girls and all . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work . |
| 8 | ‘ So you would , if you 'd been at home , ’ Roman rapped , his quietness discarded for an anger that made Claudia shiver . |
| 9 | ‘ She 'd been at work , she said , when she went into labour . |
| 10 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
| 11 | Helen did n't help herself or increase the possibility of peace on earth by saying she 'd been at Dad 's Chislehurst gig . |
| 12 | Mrs Clinton replied that she 'd been at college with him and they 'd had a very close relationship . |
| 13 | Everyone you knew was at school . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The profession was too professional , a long study , and she had been at university , a giddy time . |
| 16 | Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was years since she had ridden a bike too , not since she had been at school and had cycled home each day . |
| 19 | By the time InterSpray arrived back in Southampton she had been at sea for 156 days , 14 hours and 9 minutes . |
| 20 | If she had been at court the young dandies would have written odes and sonnets to her eyebrows , her finger nails and her sweet rose mouth . |
| 21 | They had helped with their mother 's care when she had been at home , and taken part in planning her funeral . |
| 22 | It was news to her , she had been at home all the time and her husband had taken another ‘ wife ’ . |
| 23 | Although , as for this last speculation , Harriet could not help thinking that if Liza was still as distressed as she had been at home , she would have been even more likely to let her mother know , for she had never before been one to suffer in silence . |
| 24 | She stayed in Danzig five or six weeks , to her daughter-in-law 's horror and embarrassment , since she had her cryings and roarings ‘ as well as if she had been at home ’ . |
| 25 | She once confessed how unhappy she had been at home . |
| 26 | In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year . |
| 27 | When she had been at college she had socialised in plenty and had had her fair share of boyfriends , Ashley reflected , as they drove along , but since then her energies had been single-mindedly channelled into her career . |
| 28 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 29 | ‘ If we had been at home Rachel might have been spending the day with us instead . ’ |
| 30 | We had been at Orange for a week and were having a kit inspection . |