Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I just thought he 'd been at the whisky even more than usual , and ignored him . |
| 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 | He 'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city . |
| 5 | Andy told me Howie and another two locals jumped a couple of travellers who 'd been at the party as well . |
| 6 | Erm that probably because they 'd been at the bottom so long , er it did n't appear that there was |
| 7 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 10 | ‘ T is how I learned that you 'd been at the castle . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the week that he 'd been at the helm of the Anpetuwi ship there had been a remarkable change in atmosphere . |
| 13 | They 'd been at the Nuffield Press in Oxford all their working lives until this week . |
| 14 | The length of time for which the earth had been at a temperature suitable for life was estimated at not more than a million years . |
| 15 | While they were there , Peggy ( who had been at a boarding school in Pretoria ) was able to resume her ballet classes . |
| 16 | He had achieved his aim of recreating the days of his ancestors , at least in part , but it had been at a great cost . |
| 17 | There had been a recent incident involving my younger brother , Russell , who had been at a party and on his way home been accosted by a group of men that he knew , who were in a car . |
| 18 | The worst moment of all , he thought , had been at a quarter to nine that morning , when he had been roused from the bottom depths of heavy , dream-tangled sleep by the door bell , and when , having stumbled across the room , still not knowing where he was or what was happening , he had found Mrs. Mounce at the door , asking if she could do any shopping for them . |
| 19 | When the War Office discovered in 1881 that Clarke had been at a home station for twenty-seven years , it ordered him to sever his connection with the Ordnance Survey and take up a post in Mauritius . |
| 20 | He 'd arranged to meet her at in the West End , he told me , but had been at a loss for a suitable landmark as a meeting place . |
| 21 | Once had been at the theatre , when she had walked into the foyer and received a thoroughly unpleasant jolt when she had seen him standing only yards away , and the second time had been at a party . |
| 22 | Earlier in the evening the first year food technology student , who had heart surgery in 1987 , had been at a disco in the Students Union . |
| 23 | She had been at a Women 's Aid conference in London all weekend , and she was tired and depressed . |
| 24 | The Dimblebys had been at a loss for words . |
| 25 | ( He is certainly the first pope for whom we have direct evidence that he had been at a centre of learning . ) |
| 26 | His clothes suggested that he had been at a party and was anxious to get back to it . |
| 27 | He had been at a ‘ knickers-off ’ party which he heard might be raided by the police . |
| 28 | Sir Patrick , welcoming Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring , rejected suggestions that relations between both Governments had been at a low ebb after their last talks in July and stressed that both were treating the worsening security situation ‘ very seriously ’ . |
| 29 | Resisted and resented though he had been at every turn , he nonetheless detected a direction to his enquiries that promised to become an unwavering course . |
| 30 | Mr Murphy was released yesterday after statements were produced in court from witnesses who said he had been at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Uxbridge , west London , at the time of the bombing . |