Example sentences of "had [be] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst moment of all , he thought , had been at a quarter to nine that morning , when he had been roused from the bottom depths of heavy , dream-tangled sleep by the door bell , and when , having stumbled across the room , still not knowing where he was or what was happening , he had found Mrs. Mounce at the door , asking if she could do any shopping for them . |
| 2 | ( He is certainly the first pope for whom we have direct evidence that he had been at a centre of learning . ) |
| 3 | While they were there , Peggy ( who had been at a boarding school in Pretoria ) was able to resume her ballet classes . |
| 4 | When the War Office discovered in 1881 that Clarke had been at a home station for twenty-seven years , it ordered him to sever his connection with the Ordnance Survey and take up a post in Mauritius . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He 'd arranged to meet her at in the West End , he told me , but had been at a loss for a suitable landmark as a meeting place . |
| 7 | The Dimblebys had been at a loss for words . |
| 8 | Earlier in the evening the first year food technology student , who had heart surgery in 1987 , had been at a disco in the Students Union . |
| 9 | There had been a recent incident involving my younger brother , Russell , who had been at a party and on his way home been accosted by a group of men that he knew , who were in a car . |
| 10 | Once had been at the theatre , when she had walked into the foyer and received a thoroughly unpleasant jolt when she had seen him standing only yards away , and the second time had been at a party . |
| 11 | His clothes suggested that he had been at a party and was anxious to get back to it . |
| 12 | Resisted and resented though he had been at every turn , he nonetheless detected a direction to his enquiries that promised to become an unwavering course . |
| 13 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 14 | The problems we faced had been at the centre of passionate argument for many decades . |
| 15 | He collected their drinks and turned from the bar where he had been at the centre of a laughing group of men who frequently glanced at her curiously . |
| 16 | The feelings of Sixties youth had been at the centre of Crawford 's most successful screen characters , but his third film with director Richard Lester was to incense the older generation in a way that no film had done before . |
| 17 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
| 18 | This means that the total level of unemployment exceeds the natural level — i.e. the level of unemployment which would still have existed even if the real wage had been at the level ( W/P ) 0 which cleared the labour market . |
| 19 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 20 | Joe had been at the pub that evening , and when he arrived home just before ten , he found her on the floor . |
| 21 | The possibility had been at the back of Cadfael 's mind for some time . |
| 22 | Tact and discretion he had used , and he dared say that Dierdriu had been told who had been at the back of it . |
| 23 | Sidacai would not know that Burun had been at the back of it all , of course , and either way he would owe his life to the Merkuts . |
| 24 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 25 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 26 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |
| 27 | From the thin , wretched creature it had been at the beginning of the siege it had become quite fat , for recently it had succeeded in eating two small lap-dogs which had unwisely fallen asleep in its presence . |
| 28 | It had been a puzzle that they could be knocked around in interaction with each other and yet emerge unscathed , the same as they had been at the beginning . |
| 29 | His kingdom had come some considerable way from the remote and backward region it had been at the beginning of the seventh century . |
| 30 | Her only chance to escape had been at the beginning , when Miguel had loomed above her as she lay in the garden . |