Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig . |
| 2 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 3 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 4 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
| 5 | I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school . |
| 6 | ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on . |
| 7 | And of course a lot of the engineering was on textile machinery and er I did n't , I just would n't go back to it after I 'd been at it about a couple of years . |
| 8 | Erm and at that ti but other than that , mind you I su I suppose that if , if I 'd been at home I should have probably been expected to be in , but I do n't think I should have been locked out . |
| 9 | I felt like a Run , so I left my jacket near the Pole I 'd been at the day Diggs had come with the news , and tucked the catapult tightly between my cords and my belt . |
| 10 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 11 | I had been at St Andrew 's House barely a week , when a telegram arrived at my parents ' home : |
| 12 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 13 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
| 14 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 15 | As far as I was concerned , when I had been at Bourn a month I felt I had lived there for years . |
| 16 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 17 | I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work . |
| 18 | If I had been at my gun , I would have been dissected . |
| 19 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 20 | Since I had been at the university we had seen far less of each other . |
| 21 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 22 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 23 | Happily I had been at school with this fellow and was able to contact him on my next leave , and to persuade him that it would be a pity to spoil his good name by killing me . |
| 24 | Someone had been at the office , of course . |
| 25 | It was not until 1837 that the beautiful pair of wrought-iron gates , which had been at the entrance to Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , were purchased by the Duke of Devonshire for the main entrance to Chiswick House , created as the alternative to the old main entrance off Lord Burlington 's Lane . |
| 26 | Labelled ‘ bankrupt ’ the whole family which had been at one with their neighbours found themselves set apart . |
| 27 | The full effects of the theological liberalism which had been at work since the nineteenth century came into their own in the English-speaking world after the publication of Honest to God ( Robinson 1963 ) . |
| 28 | But at all events , the insurmountable obstacle to such planning was the total unwillingness of unions to accept manpower planning which had been at the heart of wartime economic direction . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | With Fisher 's appointment as President of the Board ( having a seat in the Cabinet ) came an undertaking that money would be made available for such post-war reconstruction ; and the policy itself was enshrined in legislation to enable the kind of educational expansion within the continuing and adult sectors which had been at the forefront of the Newbolt Committee 's deliberations.5 In practice , however , such expansion was never enacted , despite the ever-increasing reliance of the universities upon state funds ( by 1931 they were receiving slightly over half their income from this source ) , |