Example sentences of "have been [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | THE Lord Chancellor , Lord Mackay of Clashfern , has been strangely at odds with the law during this year . |
| 3 | That truck has been there at least three days . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The ‘ transition team ’ has been quietly at work in Little Rock , capital of Clinton 's home state Arkansas , mulling policy and future appointments . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 9 | She 'd been there at the time he 'd wanted a woman . |
| 10 | They 'd been there at the wedding , when the wine , that water had been turned into wine . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Irate boss to late arrival at Lloyd 's : ‘ You should have been here at nine o'clock . ’ |
| 14 | IRATE boss to late arrival at Lloyd 's : ‘ You should have been here at nine o'clock . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He would have been quite at home in those Trafalgar square riots . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well done you and a very , very special thanks to the Princess Royal , without whose leadership it would not have been possibly at all . |
| 25 | I know we need it , but , I would have been anywhere at the moment though |
| 26 | THE FOREST COLONIAL folding chair would have been entirely at home on the deck of any of the great ocean liners of the 1830s . |
| 27 | I gather there was a defender on the goal line so Strachan could n't have been offside at all . |
| 28 | So in reality they need never have been all at exactly the same place , only very close together . |
| 29 | Once I got in well hungover at four in the afternoon when I should have been there at 11 . |
| 30 | Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all . |