Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My reasons for so soon destroying my drawings were these ; though I dare say that they do n't appear so rational to any one but myself : I was obliged to limit the work — in order to get more subscribers — & to erase the drawings — because the expense is considerable for keeping them on , & I have pretty great difficulty in paying my monthly charges , — for to pay colourer & printer monthly I am obstinately pre-possessed — since I had rather be at the bottom of the River Thames — than be one week in debt — be it never so small . |
| 2 | Wright said : ‘ I recognised that , in the previous two games , I had not been at my best . |
| 3 | I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before . |
| 4 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 5 | It was Hermione , genuinely concerned because she had not been at school ; someone who had missed her . |
| 6 | Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt . |
| 7 | Guilt because she had not been at her father 's side when death had sent him this violent warning . |
| 8 | Rufus put up two or three names , one being of someone they had both been at school with . |
| 9 | It had not been at all like that . |
| 10 | if it had n't been at the club one night . |
| 11 | She would n't have sought her independence at all if it had n't been at such . |
| 12 | He had not been at Eton himself but when he played for the masters his volleying in the Field Game — the Eton form of football — was long remembered . |
| 13 | But then , of course , he had not been at home . |
| 14 | But he had n't been at the PCC because of recovering , still , from the flu . |
| 15 | Peter was a poor salesman , but he had n't been at DPR quite long enough yet to get sacked . |
| 16 | If he had n't been at least six feet two , Maggie would have hit him . |
| 17 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
| 18 | Jake had had no real friends except Ben ; he had often been at the house in those old days , never saying much , but good at mending broken toys and constructing dolls out of handkerchiefs and folded paper . |
| 19 | He had always been at his best when he was pressed hardest . |
| 20 | He did talk to his wife , Empress Farah , but otherwise he had never been at ease with Iranians . |
| 21 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 22 | One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks … |