Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 2 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I have been at those dinners where the merits of our contemporaries are discussed , and where Du Camp , as each new name was suggested , would with infinite urbanity correct the general view . |
| 5 | I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be . |
| 6 | Someone 's been at this — probably the lickspittle English rock press . |
| 7 | Labelled ‘ bankrupt ’ the whole family which had been at one with their neighbours found themselves set apart . |
| 8 | The range of decorative techniques which have been at some time applied to metalwork is a subject for many books , not just a few pages . |
| 9 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 10 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 11 | She had been at one of the best State schools in England , where she would still be , no doubt , but for what Toby had heard referred to as an Incident . |
| 12 | Back in the main sitting room where she had been at first she was introduced to Antonietta 's husband Gennaro who was the head of the household . |
| 13 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
| 14 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 15 | This was a task for which Wilson Jr , who had been at best an indifferent driver himself , was palpably unfitted . |
| 16 | At Pemberley the ‘ many family portraits … could have little to fix the attention of a stranger ’ ; at Sotherton they are ‘ no longer any thing to any body but Mrs Rushworth , who had been at great pains to learn all that the housekeeper could teach ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ You have been at some personal pains , ’ said the king in the same quiet voice , ‘ to bring us an eye-witness ’ account , and for that we thank you . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I believe that I am right in saying that in the most recent 20 cases , there have been at most 22 counts . |
| 21 | And , they were often not released until they 'd been at this casual ward for two days . |
| 22 | He went on to say that they had been at great pains to build up an efficient fifth-column unit and should not be expected to give up their best men as soon as they were trained . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 25 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 26 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
| 29 | Over three-quarters of credit users reckon that its cost has been reasonable ( see Appendix I , Table 24 ) , and less than one in ten say it has been at all unreasonable . |
| 30 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |