Example sentences of "[been] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And has Mystery Miguelito been at Pepe 's for long ? ’ |
| 2 | He 's been at Pepe 's as long as I 've been coming here — though he does sometimes take holidays , I must admit . ’ |
| 3 | The new manager could have been at Burnden Park watching United last night … several men chasing the job were in the stands … hopefully genning themselves up for an interview … they 'll have plenty to talk about lots of food for thought as United lost their third game in a row … |
| 4 | The new manager could have been at Burnden Park watching United last night … several men chasing the job were in the stands … hopefully genning themselves up for an interview … they 'll have plenty to talk about lots of food for thought as United lost their third game in a row … |
| 5 | He has been at Charlton for ten months after completing a period of secondment at Shaw 's in the USA . |
| 6 | That is what has been at issue since the Single European Act — I was not here before that — and today with the treaty of union . |
| 7 | Most of his meetings have been at Cadwell , a 150 mile round trip from his home . |
| 8 | We should have been at Ardneavie ages ago . ’ |
| 9 | Since her trial a year ago , which led to a six-year jail sentence , Winnie Mandela has been at liberty on bail , pending an appeal . |
| 10 | The closure of Ulimwengu could have been challenged in the courts had anyone felt willing , or been at liberty , to do so . |
| 11 | On 7 May the applicant was admitted to bail , and so far as we are aware has been at liberty ever since , although it appears that he has appeared on a number of occasions at the Guildhall Magistrates ' Court , to what effect we do not know . |
| 12 | If they had been at liberty to quit the vessel at Cronstadt , the case would have been quite different ; or if the captain had capriciously discharged the two men who were wanting , the others might not have been compellable to take the whole duty upon themselves , and their agreeing to do so might have been a sufficient consideration for the promise of an advance of wages . |
| 13 | Stützer , who has been at Kamekestrasse since 1980 and whose programme consists mainly of sculpture , is , until 6 June , showing neo-Constructivist works by the Yugoslav-born sculptor Wasa Marjanov . |
| 14 | With Paul Foot , Booker and Ingrams had been at Shrewsbury in the early 1950s . |
| 15 | Nevertheless it had been at Bray 's Buildings , stench or no stench , squeals of slaughtered beasts or no squeals , that one of the most fascinating of Benjamin 's children had entered the world . |
| 16 | Monica 's number one ranking would have been at stake at Wimbledon . |
| 17 | But they remained essential to him , perhaps because his life had so often been at stake . |
| 18 | Plainly national security can not have been at stake since that had already been damaged . |
| 19 | But , if the end-result of the changes has not been significantly to reduce spending , it remains to be determined what it actually has achieved and what has been at stake . |
| 20 | However , the Heilbron Report made no proposals to change the law on the issue which had been at stake in the Morgan case — that a man could escape a rape conviction if he thought that the woman was consenting whether she was or not . |
| 21 | Since political values have often been at stake in conflicts over social policy , the very character of the ideological issue has precluded a cool appraisal of all the policy options . |
| 22 | But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig . |
| 23 | All told , of the forty-six male English lord lieutenants in 1990 , no less than thirty had been at Eton . |
| 24 | After the 1945 election more than a quarter of the Conservative parliamentary party had been at Eton . |
| 25 | In education the party conformed more to what would be expected : 196 MPs had been to public schools ( 68 per cent of the party , twice the proportion of Liberals ) and eighty-six of these had been at Eton , almost a third of the party . |
| 26 | Several of my family , including my grandfather , had been at Eton ; he , however , sent his sons , other than my father , to Winchester . |
| 27 | He had not been at Eton himself but when he played for the masters his volleying in the Field Game — the Eton form of football — was long remembered . |
| 28 | Another fifty-four who had been at state schools were also Oxbridge graduates . |
| 29 | Although Clare had decided to call in Meg , she did n't ; at first because in the morning things were n't so pressing as they had been at night , and then because she was too busy at the Refuge , and then because it really did n't seem fair . |
| 30 | James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York , one of the first to warn of the dangers of global warming , agrees that most of the warming has been at night but expects warming factors eventually to overtake cooling factors , leading to significant rises in daytime temperatures . |