Example sentences of "[been] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She might have been down at the jetty a couple of hours ago . |
| 2 | Maggie immediately thought of the lack of seagulls she 'd noticed when she 'd been down at the sea-front . |
| 3 | I would rather have been down at the villa making figgy hedgehogs for Tony but a promise is a promise . |
| 4 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 5 | A legend in the power boat world , Shurdington signwriter , John has been in at the top of his sport for over 30 years . |
| 6 | Madeira can claim to have been in at the birth of modern tourism , along with such famous nineteenth-century resorts as Baden-Baden , the Italian Lakes and the French Riviera . |
| 7 | " We in Christian Aid are proud to have been in at the start of this magazine which campaigns relentlessly for a better , fairer , environmentally purer and politically more aware world . |
| 8 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 9 | However , allied to the improvement in companies ' financial position has been an increase in large companies ' liquidity ratios , to their highest level since the end of 1987 ( though this may have been partly at the cost of the liquidity of smaller companies , because of trade credit effect ) . |
| 10 | Slorne , who had been up at the back of her cage most of the day as usual , suddenly opened her wings , swung round and dropped down to the front of her cage . |
| 11 | ‘ Been up at the School today , ’ replied the visitor . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's been up at the School ! |
| 13 | Had she accepted , he might have been back at The priory now , with her as his bride . |
| 14 | I should have been back at the office . |
| 15 | Jean , surely , had been here at the time of the murder . |
| 16 | If you ask medical staff how often they have seen someone die , rather than if they have been around at the time , surprisingly few will say they witnessed the actual event . |
| 17 | Had he been around at the time of my capture I do n't believe I 'd have made it very far . |
| 18 | For those of us old enough to have been around at the time of the birth of rock ‘ n ’ roll , the idea of an advanced course in the music which made both us and our parents jump ( but in opposite directions ) may be hard to accommodate . |
| 19 | If International had been around at the time of the Vikings , there 's little doubt whose paint would have been used to keep those marauding longships in prime condition . |
| 20 | ‘ How about something really radical on the dangers of sunbathing without blocker ? ’ said Helena , who had just found a mole on her arm which had definitely not been there at the beginning of the summer . |
| 21 | The way in which some of the subsidies work is ludicrous , but had we been there at the beginning , we might have been able to reform it so that it could work to our advantage . |
| 22 | How long have you been there at the nursing home ? |
| 23 | They 'd been there at the wedding , when the wine , that water had been turned into wine . |
| 24 | Looking down I saw they were in a puddle of water that had n't been there at the start and seemed to be oozing out of the ground . |
| 25 | She 'd been there at the time he 'd wanted a woman . |
| 26 | If Deaconess Tilley had n't been there at the time , she might have found an excuse to say no . |
| 27 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |
| 28 | Probably had I been there at the point of commissioning I would not have chosen that story . |
| 29 | For when he had been there at the end of the war it was very much the preserve of the officer class . |
| 30 | Addressed ‘ Charles Paris ’ , he was sure it had n't been there at the interval . |