Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] have been at " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 2 | The team have n't won since the opening day against Portsmouth … as for Bristol City both have their wins have been at home |
| 3 | Whenever there was something amiss in the district she wondered where her brothers had been at the time , and as she had been making her way to Sainsbury 's this thought had yet again crossed her mind . |
| 4 | In angry self-reproach , Louisa saw how much sooner it should have been evident to her that in identifying so completely with his most noble ancestor , her father had been at pains to exclude all thought of his more immediate and darker legacy . |
| 5 | Their anticipation had been at fever pitch for days . |
| 6 | His last sight of her reliquary had been at morning Mass . |
| 7 | Esther was also offered places at both universities , and chose Cambridge because it offered her a scholarship , and because her brother had been at King 's , and because she heard an owl hoot thrice in the college garden when she retired to her narrow bed after the glass of wine with Flora Piercy . |
| 8 | Most of his meetings have been at Cadwell , a 150 mile round trip from his home . |
| 9 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 10 | The boy told us that his dog had been at the head of the pack from the start , biting the boar 's heels and almost bringing it down . |
| 11 | By the test of later reflection his idea of explanation was confused and his findings have been at least modified by the theory of relativity . |
| 12 | David Livingstone , father of Andrew and of the same address , said his son had been at home weight training when he was supposed to be out throwing stones . |
| 13 | Our marriage has been at an end for some time as far as I am concerned . |
| 14 | Your father has been at Una to marry Drennan , cajoling her , pleading with her , aye , and threatening her ! |