Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] be at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on . |
| 3 | I felt like a Run , so I left my jacket near the Pole I 'd been at the day Diggs had come with the news , and tucked the catapult tightly between my cords and my belt . |
| 4 | The next time I noticed was at the terminus |
| 5 | The only poor shot I hit was at the 14th , when a little wedge went right over the green . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 7 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 8 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 9 | Since I had been at the university we had seen far less of each other . |
| 10 | ‘ T is how I learned that you 'd been at the castle . |
| 11 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 12 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 13 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 14 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 15 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 16 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 17 | She retreated round the stall ; she had been at the front , helping a customer to choose something from what remained unsold . |
| 18 | Last time we met was at the Training Centre at Achnacarry . |
| 19 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 20 | We had been at the wedding a full hour before I began to be curious about the whereabouts of the bride and groom . |
| 21 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 22 | So that was nineteen eighty two , the first one we had was at the end of nineteen eighty four , which was at . |
| 23 | Erm that probably because they 'd been at the bottom so long , er it did n't appear that there was |
| 24 | They 'd been at the Nuffield Press in Oxford all their working lives until this week . |
| 25 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 26 | After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective . |
| 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 | They had been at the airport for six hours , waiting for a flight , any flight out of Iraq , going anywhere . |
| 29 | The questions posed by the existence of the asylums thus remained as unanswered at the end of these closures as they had been at the inception of their planning in 1978 , when NETRHA officers too were also beginning the difficult task of addressing them . |
| 30 | It had been a puzzle that they could be knocked around in interaction with each other and yet emerge unscathed , the same as they had been at the beginning . |