Example sentences of "have [been] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My point of order is that , if the Government are having a difference with someone as important as a European Commissioner over such a substantial sum of European and public money , and with the charges that the British Treasury is laundering that money , surely a Minister should have been at the Dispatch Box today to make a statement . |
| 2 | They should have been at the scene in a quarter of an hour . |
| 3 | It was a tragic irony for the Byzantines , and for Christian Europe , that the first Ottoman incursion into Europe , in 1345 , should have been at the invitation of one of the rulers of Constantinople . |
| 4 | I think they were all impressed , although it may have been at the thought of Gran going camping ! |
| 5 | ‘ The Home Secretary always escorts the Queen to the door and could not possibly have been at the Cenotaph before her . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You must have been at the whisky bottle . ’ |
| 7 | He should have been at the airport last evening to see Elsa Lawrence and her children off and the casket . |
| 8 | Because if you had not been down in Minya chasing that gipsy woman you would have been at the theatre . |
| 9 | The Ministry of Reconstruction , the only potential co-ordinating body for post-war plans , was dismantled in June 1919 , just when it should have been at the peak of its activities . |
| 10 | If what he told Rose was true , he could n't have been at the belvedere after about a quarter to nine . |
| 11 | ‘ Well — if he hated the massacre , he should not have been at the battle . ’ |
| 12 | It may have been at the chapel that Father began to court Mother . |
| 13 | ( Cor blimey gov. must have been at the crimble drink already ) . |
| 14 | Without this precaution ‘ half the battalions , ’ he believed , ‘ would have been at the hospital already ’ . |
| 15 | Jed would have been at the party if it had not been his duty evening with the Safeguards . |
| 16 | Pascoe would have been at the restaurant , waiting . |
| 17 | One time no a long time ago , which it might actually , might you might have been at the meeting , I do n't know . |
| 18 | Religion must certainly have been at the forefront of his mind when , shooting the sharks , he twice looked death directly in the face . |