Example sentences of "[vb past] be at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been at a Women 's Aid conference in London all weekend , and she was tired and depressed . |
| 2 | Mr Murphy was released yesterday after statements were produced in court from witnesses who said he had been at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Uxbridge , west London , at the time of the bombing . |
| 3 | Ken had been at the auditions that Michael Codron organized , when he was looking for a feed for Williams . |
| 4 | The man who had opened the emergency door identified himself as the co-pilot and informed them that the pilot who had been at the controls had been knocked unconscious at the moment of impact and was badly injured . |
| 5 | There were no major artists on Virgin whose sensibilities were likely to be offended as there had been at the Pistols ' previous stopovers ; no American parent company to interfere . |
| 6 | They had been at the police station , making statements about an assault on Miss Wilson by a man on the night in question . |
| 7 | At first some of the monks were loath to enter on a long and expensive case before the pope , but they had among their number a man of mature years , called Thomas of Marlborough , who had been at the schools of Paris and who had taught at Oxford . |
| 8 | Part of my later training had been at the hands of an ex-SAS instructor whose absolute priority for survival was evading the enemy ; and with doubt but also awareness of danger I guessed at an enemy above our heads , not a saviour . |