Example sentences of "the [noun sg] had be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evening before , the carrier-bag had been at the foot of the monkey-puzzle , propped up against the trunk , facing the house . |
| 2 | Half the force had been at the match , of course , although that was hardly an excuse . |
| 3 | The boy had been at best lethargic , uncooperative , at worst disruptive to the point of actual physical violence . |
| 4 | The pupil had been at Magdalen for a year , and then left to join the Army . |
| 5 | She carried their drinks into the living room and asked Ralph if he had managed to see his solicitor ; the appointment had been at 2 p.m . |
| 6 | Wearying though the journey had been at the time — even humiliating in respect of his being drawn in a litter — in retrospect it seemed full of excitement , a time when one knew not what would happen next or what lay around the next corner . |
| 7 | For most of the leaders among the Owenites the distinction only showed itself in their recognition that the Bill had done nothing for working people ; that since the prime need , as they saw it , was to act directly to remove the evils of a system which grievously oppressed the lives of working people , the Bill had been at best an irrelevance , at worst a distraction . |
| 8 | Until the sixties the headquarters of the Legion had been at Side Bel Abbe s in Algeria , the country which for 150 years had been the Legion 's home . |
| 9 | So — the grapevine had been at work , had it ? |
| 10 | The possibility had been at the back of Cadfael 's mind for some time . |
| 11 | The length of time for which the earth had been at a temperature suitable for life was estimated at not more than a million years . |