Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 . |
| 2 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 3 | ‘ Before I burst through that door , I 'd been listening at the window — I distinctly recall that he was refusing to say anything really damning . |
| 4 | He 'd been staying at a bail hostel in Gloucester whilst waiting for the case to come to court . |
| 5 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 6 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 7 | Judith had once confided that she too had an uncertain grasp of the past , though she 'd been drunk at the time , and had denied it vehemently when he 'd raised the subject again . |
| 8 | But of course , th , I 'd been living at The Haven then , next to the butcher 's shop . |
| 9 | Rory jumped as though she 'd been shot at the sound of the lazily amused voice materialising apparently out of nowhere . |
| 10 | Later today the body was identified as that of a 23 year old man from Cheltenham , who 'd been seen at the race course last night . |
| 11 | and erm as usual this was erm , this created a bit of controversy because erm temporary staff , according to the reading of the minute , did n't er , were n't entitled to war bonus because erm , they 'd been appointed at a certain salary and er that was that and er , but in the end we managed to get our war bonus as well so we were on equal pegging with the , with the other staff . |
| 12 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |
| 13 | Used to creating and presenting ideas to a wide variety of clients , she 'd grown proud of her capacity to keep her head under pressure , yet from the moment she 'd crossed the threshold of this impressive room she 'd been put at a distinct disadvantage . |
| 14 | Lone travellers , they 'd been talking at the bar , and Lily had said how much she enjoyed dancing . |
| 15 | When I got into work on the big day I found out he 'd been arrested at the weekend . |
| 16 | And that was the only part I did n't care for , because if I 'd been arriving at a lot of conclusions that were wrong , then I could be wrong about this too . |
| 17 | It 'd been running at a loss for years . |
| 18 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 19 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 20 | On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity . |
| 21 | Plants collected were exhibited at a dinner in July to Members and their guests , and a general discussion followed a talk by the Demonstrator . |
| 22 | The decision to have the three executed was taken at the very top by a Cabinet sub-committee . ’ |
| 23 | All he did was remain at the point where they first met . |
| 24 | In each case the sentence is true if the person who spoke was skipping at the time of the utterance . |
| 25 | It was reported that over-ripe tomatoes and some oldish eggs had been tossed at the door of two southern commercial stations , which was a smear tactic we deplored with emphasis . |
| 26 | Convergence associated with the continuing subduction of the remaining oceanic lithosphere along the plate margin would be maintained until the plate boundary had been fixed at a sufficient number of points to resist further subduction . |
| 27 | The manners which Topaz had been taught at the convent were good enough as a basis for acceptable behaviour , but she soon discovered that she had a great deal more to learn , and would also have to adopt a whole new set of values . |
| 28 | Assuming the Turkey Pens had been situated at the rear of the house , he reckoned he was now heading for the outer fence somewhere off to the north side of the grounds . |
| 29 | Those results would suggest that the other tumours were in fact new tumours , rather than persistent tumours which had been missed at the first cystoscopy . |
| 30 | Breeze had been gazing at the lights for so long that she was quite dazzled . |