Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I just thought he 'd been at the whisky even more than usual , and ignored him . |
| 2 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 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 | Erm that probably because they 'd been at the bottom so long , er it did n't appear that there was |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Andy told me Howie and another two locals jumped a couple of travellers who 'd been at the party as well . |
| 7 | In the week that he 'd been at the helm of the Anpetuwi ship there had been a remarkable change in atmosphere . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ T is how I learned that you 'd been at the castle . |
| 11 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 12 | The problems we faced had been at the centre of passionate argument for many decades . |
| 13 | He collected their drinks and turned from the bar where he had been at the centre of a laughing group of men who frequently glanced at her curiously . |
| 14 | The feelings of Sixties youth had been at the centre of Crawford 's most successful screen characters , but his third film with director Richard Lester was to incense the older generation in a way that no film had done before . |
| 15 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
| 16 | This means that the total level of unemployment exceeds the natural level — i.e. the level of unemployment which would still have existed even if the real wage had been at the level ( W/P ) 0 which cleared the labour market . |
| 17 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 18 | Joe had been at the pub that evening , and when he arrived home just before ten , he found her on the floor . |
| 19 | The possibility had been at the back of Cadfael 's mind for some time . |
| 20 | Tact and discretion he had used , and he dared say that Dierdriu had been told who had been at the back of it . |
| 21 | Sidacai would not know that Burun had been at the back of it all , of course , and either way he would owe his life to the Merkuts . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |
| 25 | From the thin , wretched creature it had been at the beginning of the siege it had become quite fat , for recently it had succeeded in eating two small lap-dogs which had unwisely fallen asleep in its presence . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | His kingdom had come some considerable way from the remote and backward region it had been at the beginning of the seventh century . |
| 28 | Her only chance to escape had been at the beginning , when Miguel had loomed above her as she lay in the garden . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | If it had been at the border they 'd have given him five or even ten . ’ |