Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 2 | He 'd been staying at a bail hostel in Gloucester whilst waiting for the case to come to court . |
| 3 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 'd been running at a loss for years . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The subject had been raised at a meeting between Prime Minister Petre Roman and President Mitterrand of France in Paris on July 18 . |
| 11 | Zuno had been convicted at an earlier trial but Rafeedie had set aside the verdict on the grounds that the prosecution had referred in closing arguments to matters not in evidence . |
| 12 | Daniel had been officiating at a funeral . |
| 13 | From the point of view of the British , Polaris had been secured at a knock-down price . |
| 14 | By the end of October this had resulted in a 20 per cent devaluation of the lempira against the US dollar , to which it had been tied at a fixed exchange rate since October 1989 . |
| 15 | A length of thick blue nylon rope like this had been tied at a height of about 4 ft across the main Cattle Market Road in Northampton . |
| 16 | So , inference : the picture had been painted at a time other than it appeared to have been , and had been painted by someone who " could not have been there " . |
| 17 | The group had been drinking at a nearby pub in Uckington , Glos . |
| 18 | It was reported on March 3 that a senior NPA member , Ricardo Capili Reyes , had been apprehended at a checkpoint in Manila . |
| 19 | The material included flammable and toxic paint residues and solvents which had been stored at a site in Essex not licensed to deal with hazardous waste . |
| 20 | Nor are all assessments entirely reliable : Brooke Priory in Rutland owned goods valued at £52 and had no serious debts when it was dissolved in 1536 yet fourteen years earlier it had been assessed at a mere £13 6s 8d . |
| 21 | This announcement had been made at a council of the ROC , but was retracted in Kiev on April 14 on the grounds that it had been made under pressure . |
| 22 | This ruling had been made at a meeting with the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa . |
| 23 | A basic minimal consensus on political union had been achieved at an informal meeting of the Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers in Parknasilla ( Ireland ) on May 19-20 . |
| 24 | Red Cross officials are trying to confirm reports that 1,200 people had been massacred at a Serb detention camp at Lukavac . |
| 25 | Yesterday party leaders voiced their total opposition to violent acts and one SNP MP , Andrew Welsh , claimed he had been misquoted at a recent press conference when he apparently would not rule out sabotage . |
| 26 | This deployment had been decided at a Feb. 1 meeting of the Lebanese Council of Ministers , as part of a Syrian-backed initiative to restore the authority of the Lebanese government within the terms of the 1989 Taif agreement [ see pp. 36986 ; 37928 ] . |
| 27 | They had been staying at a log cabin holiday home at Cropton , near Pickering , and yesterday , Ray Allanson , manager of the Forestry Commission 's Keldy Forest cabins , said : ‘ They left without any maps unaware of the dangers of walking in the forest at night . |
| 28 | They had been staying at a 16th century chateau near Compeigne . |
| 29 | According to the price inflation version of the Phillips curve , we must of necessity infer that the economy had been operating at a level of demand which was consistent with an unemployment rate U * ; in Figure 6.6 . |
| 30 | Lower down the hierarchy and , apparently , quite independently of his seniors , the young William Armstrong ( who was to head the Treasury in the 1960s and the Civil Service in the 1970s ) was , as Brook 's private secretary , trying to make sense of the proliferation of committees , some of which had been inherited from the Coalition while others had been created at a considerable rate by the new government . |