Example sentences of "had been [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 2 | Jean , surely , had been here at the time of the murder . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | While I had been away at the Wye , the silver-grey had either moved her family to a new nest of had fallen foul of a fisherman 's trap . |
| 5 | Poor Sam had been backwards at coming forwards , she told herself . |
| 6 | She was sitting on the opposite side of the grate and Louise Carter thought fleetingly how proud Nora had always been of her daughter even when they had been dramatically at loggerheads and how pleased she would be if she could see her now , in her elegant black dress and silver jewellery . |
| 7 | A few days before Anthony 's death they had been together at the Lancaster Road Baths watching local semi-professional boxers . |
| 8 | Dermot and I had been together at Eton but then Dermot was one of the Lower boys who came when I shouted " Boy " . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Since his sly suggestions of Thursday midnight she had been unremittingly at war with him , though they still ostensibly shared a bed . |
| 11 | Slowly she began to come back to reality , and realise that she had been entirely at his mercy . |
| 12 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |
| 13 | He had been there at least a week , a stain of blood spreading out from his face across the bottom mattress , his shattered body preserved by the freezing February weather . |
| 14 | But he had been there at the right time , he had acted swiftly and effectively and she was alive . |
| 15 | For when he had been there at the end of the war it was very much the preserve of the officer class . |