Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met him at a dance held in the Airmen 's Mess ( so romantic ! ) , when I 'd only been at Binbrook three weeks . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd only been at Rangers five minutes when he offered me the use of his villa in Florida . |
| 3 | ‘ My reasons for so soon destroying my drawings were these ; though I dare say that they do n't appear so rational to any one but myself : I was obliged to limit the work — in order to get more subscribers — & to erase the drawings — because the expense is considerable for keeping them on , & I have pretty great difficulty in paying my monthly charges , — for to pay colourer & printer monthly I am obstinately pre-possessed — since I had rather be at the bottom of the River Thames — than be one week in debt — be it never so small . |
| 4 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 5 | This avoided the appearance of lowering rates which had often been at a " customary " level for a generation or more . |
| 6 | She 'd rarely been at school , went into domestic service , could n't read , but can write her name , then got married . |
| 7 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 8 | John Cleese and Eric Idle who had both been at Cambridge with him had had no idea . |
| 9 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 10 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
| 11 | I suddenly knew I had either to behave like a shocked girl who had still been at school that time the year before ; or like an adult . |
| 12 | Others can make a judgement that you should be spending less than that , and in fact the first budget we presented yesterday was at the level of three hundred and eleven point five million , which is further below the capped level . |
| 13 | Although this put dioxins in the public spotlight , there had already been at least nine similar accidents , including one in Derbyshire in 1968 and in Germany in 1953 . |
| 14 | Previously there had always been at least the possibility that it might be wound up after its current voyages were complete but under Cromwell the traders reorganized its joint-stock system so that , while individual owners might sell their shares , the Company was designed to go on trading forever ; and almost all companies founded subsequently were organized in the same way . |
| 15 | ‘ So if anyone wants to be on television in America , they 'd better be at my party . ’ |
| 16 | Rufus put up two or three names , one being of someone they had both been at school with . |
| 17 | Jake had had no real friends except Ben ; he had often been at the house in those old days , never saying much , but good at mending broken toys and constructing dolls out of handkerchiefs and folded paper . |
| 18 | He had always been at his best when he was pressed hardest . |
| 19 | He did talk to his wife , Empress Farah , but otherwise he had never been at ease with Iranians . |
| 20 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 21 | One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks … |