Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must 've been out at the wrong time . |
| 2 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 3 | Now he he ca n't do that now because there 's a public alleyway through , and the public alleyway has been here at least since sixteen ninety one . |
| 4 | THE Lord Chancellor , Lord Mackay of Clashfern , has been strangely at odds with the law during this year . |
| 5 | Graham Townsend has been back at work for only 4 weeks . |
| 6 | A legend in the power boat world , Shurdington signwriter , John has been in at the top of his sport for over 30 years . |
| 7 | That truck has been there at least three days . ’ |
| 8 | The important work of slum clearance has been virtually at a standstill since 1939 , only individual houses having been demolished , apart from an area in London intended as a showpiece for the Festival of Britain . |
| 9 | This important thought has been constantly at odds with the equally influential notion that we are all blank paper at birth , ready to be entirely formed by our society . |
| 10 | The ‘ transition team ’ has been quietly at work in Little Rock , capital of Clinton 's home state Arkansas , mulling policy and future appointments . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Maggie immediately thought of the lack of seagulls she 'd noticed when she 'd been down at the sea-front . |
| 13 | It was just that , well , I heard he 'd been down at the police station this morning . |
| 14 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 15 | She 'd been there at the time he 'd wanted a woman . |
| 16 | They 'd been there at the wedding , when the wine , that water had been turned into wine . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | They must have been up at Cambridge about the same time . |
| 19 | Carrie suddenly said , ‘ Your mum and I were worried about you , Seb , but all my dad could keep saying was , ‘ It 's a good job I managed to reach you when I did , or you 'd have been up at that farmhouse for another week . ’ ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Irate boss to late arrival at Lloyd 's : ‘ You should have been here at nine o'clock . ’ |
| 22 | IRATE boss to late arrival at Lloyd 's : ‘ You should have been here at nine o'clock . ’ |
| 23 | In other times she would have been obsessively at her pen or her typewriter ; as it was , she harassed her scribes and possible scribes continually — to death , it would appear in the case of the first one . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 26 | No Chris should have been in at six , that 's when the first team started counting . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I was there on my own , because the Yorkshire Television film crew had been positioned on the roof of the Palace , and would have been quite at a loss but a lady from the Yorkshire Post spotted me and kindly accompanied me for a little while . |
| 30 | He would have been quite at home in those Trafalgar square riots . |