Example sentences of "[vb past] be at the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been at the Nuffield Press in Oxford all their working lives until this week . |
| 2 | He admitted being at the Savoy nightclub that evening but said he had gone home with a friend . |
| 3 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 4 | John was not universally popular with his new colleagues any more than he had been at the Wells ; his ambition aroused suspicion , scorn , envy or fear in some , and his sense of fun ( including a rather observant line in mimicry ) left barbs in some of its victims . |
| 5 | Victor Chapman , a Harvard graduate , had been at the Paris Beaux Arts when the war broke out and promptly joined the Foreign Legion as a private . |
| 6 | However the girls took the dog upstairs where it wolfed all that was left of the lasagne and went to sleep in front of the hearth , quieter than it ever had been at the Castello Crocetto . |