Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most .
2 I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be .
3 I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism .
4 But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life .
5 And it 's er er we go to Ffestiniog power station to have a drink and then come to er er well we 've been at Royal Hotel at Betsy-Coed these last years or two .
6 Because of the repayments that were made of borrowing during that period , in the midst of a recession we are now in a better position to borrow prudently — than we have been at any stage in the past : to borrow prudently and to maintain our commitment to a balanced budget in the medium term .
7 It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century .
8 Supporters of gun control are in a stronger position now than they have been at any time since 1968 , after the shootings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy .
9 He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential .
10 It had been at one time , going back over a hundred and fifty years , it had been what they called a combination poorhouse .
11 This did not mean a dramatic drop in popularity : indeed , his approval rating was higher in 1966 and early 1967 than it had been at any point since the Algerian crisis .
12 Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards .
13 He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast .
14 Ever since he had been at high school he 'd found some enjoyment and relief by getting back at them in ways they obviously did n't expect .
15 I should think he is tired , he 's been running around this field , he 's been at deep square leg , at third man and everywhere and he just gave me that blank stare .
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