Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ transition team ’ has been quietly at work in Little Rock , capital of Clinton 's home state Arkansas , mulling policy and future appointments . |
| 2 | It was twenty to eleven when you said goodbye to Hatton and Pertwee and even walking none too fast you should have been indoors at home by eleven . |
| 3 | Eleanor Bell ( d.1827 ) has a scarlet velvet upholstered elm case which , with its cherub grip-plates , might have been equally at home in the 1720s were it not for the idiosyncratic decoration of the lid . |
| 4 | He had n't counted on the opposition of Hugh de Tracy 's priestly brother , who should have been safely at home in his monastery , where he could n't cause any trouble . |
| 5 | The Roman Emperor Antonine , while he would have looked in vain for the wall he built across Scotland 2,000 years before , would have been quite at home in the vast amphitheatre of Celtic Park . |
| 6 | He would have been quite at home in those Trafalgar square riots . |
| 7 | This attitude , on the part of their sources , is basically foreign to Marx 's and Engels 's overall work , and one feels they would have been more at home with the work of more modern prehistorians . |
| 8 | He might have been more at home in some of the radical Protestant sects that began to appear in England and — later — in America during the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | It was obvious that Matthew would have been more at home at the little desk by the window , where there was only a kitchen chair to sit on . |
| 10 | THE FOREST COLONIAL folding chair would have been entirely at home on the deck of any of the great ocean liners of the 1830s . |
| 11 | ‘ Kiwis are nocturnal birds — so that means you must have been there at night . |
| 12 | Put in this way , management of the economy seems to have been grossly at fault . |
| 13 | Hoomey thought it very weird , and longed to discuss it with somebody , but dare n't , not even to ask Gary if Nails had been away at night . |
| 14 | After the Portuguese mission left Abyssinia , Lebna Dengel found himself increasingly faced by the threat from the Muslim states of Ifat and of Adal , which included Harar , with which ever since the fourteenth century the Emperors of Abyssinia had been intermittently at war ; these states were forever encroaching on the eastern borders of the empire in a war of raid and counter-raid . |
| 15 | Since his sly suggestions of Thursday midnight she had been unremittingly at war with him , though they still ostensibly shared a bed . |
| 16 | The Muses have been traditionally at war with Christ , ever since the period of late classical antiquity , when Jerome and Augustine both viewed literary excellence with the gravest suspicion . |
| 17 | Every day more young people are infected with HIV — often completely unaware they have been personally at risk — and risky behaviour is on the increase again . |
| 18 | For many years , urban finance has been a system with which very few practitioners or academics have been totally at ease and procedures governing local-government funding have become more convoluted in the 1980s . |