Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] at [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 2 | I was in the Feathers the night Sandy MacAllister punched Laurence Uden on the nose for saying that Stanford Roberts had been drunk at poor old Sidney Cunningham 's funeral . ’ |
| 3 | As this was higher than the average rate over such a period that had been experienced at any historical time , something had to be done . |
| 4 | Direct Line Insurance is Britain 's largest direct insurer and had been running at 100,000 new policies or thereabouts for three years . |
| 5 | She had been found at two that afternoon by a party searching the Pertsey and north-west region of Vangmoor . |
| 6 | Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 . |
| 7 | She had been propositioned at that last party by a sub-editor with bad breath , who seeing her maimed and brought down had been swift to seize the opportunity . |
| 8 | By the end of 1988 gamma radiation dose monitors had been installed at 46 meteorological stations as part of phase 1 of the development programme . |
| 9 | If it had been suggested at any other time , by anyone else , she probably would have laughed , ridiculed the suggestion , treated it with casual indifference . |
| 10 | They behaved towards each other like boys who had been educated at rival private schools . |