Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that costs are not sunk means production is timeless — nothing has been committed at any point . |
| 2 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |
| 3 | I rang her every day , but I had n't seen her during the time I 'd been living at Eva 's ; I could n't face any of them in that house . |
| 4 | But of course , th , I 'd been living at The Haven then , next to the butcher 's shop . |
| 5 | ‘ Before I burst through that door , I 'd been listening at the window — I distinctly recall that he was refusing to say anything really damning . |
| 6 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 7 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 8 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
| 9 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 10 | And that was the only part I did n't care for , because if I 'd been arriving at a lot of conclusions that were wrong , then I could be wrong about this too . |
| 11 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 12 | No , I was looking forward to the Open because I 'd been stationed at Formby for my army service and I was anticipating meeting all my old friends from that time . |
| 13 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 14 | If I had been asked at Christmas whether my home waters of Chew and Blagdon would be full by opening day , the answer would have been an emphatic no . |
| 15 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 16 | Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game . |
| 17 | After all , that was what I had been aiming at . |
| 18 | When I had first heard of my appointment to Stornoway I had been elated at the prospect of leaving a somewhat dull routine existence down south . |
| 19 | The plain fact of the matter , snobbish though it may sound , was that they were both unintelligent and ill-educated in comparison to myself , belonging as they did to a different social class from the one into which I had been co-opted at school . |
| 20 | I was very interested in their answers to my questions , which often seemed to offer a different view of history from the one I had been taught at school . |
| 21 | Maybe my dad was really and truly dead and what I had been looking at , in the road outside our house and in Furnival Gardens , had been a hologram put out by the Tellenoreans . |
| 22 | ‘ I had been looking at the world ratings and the draw certainly is n't what I had expected , ’ said Gregg . |
| 23 | I saw my new home in October 1981 ; it was about the seventh or eighth place I had been to look at . |
| 24 | Before going to RADA I had been encouraged at my school in school plays , which included Oh , What a Lovely War . |
| 25 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 26 | It was a standing pose and I had been working at my canvas for a week , my problems were not nearly solved , and the painting still excited me . |
| 27 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 28 | I came here with full agreements in order to get this convoy to Cerska and so far I 've been blocked at every turn . ’ |
| 29 | I 'll tell you what it is — it 's only bogland and I should know for I 've been lookin' at them fields for years . ’ |
| 30 | I 've been staying at her place for some weeks now , in order to help her maintain the tight control on her blood sugar that 's so vital , especially in the first three months , but that 's becoming impractical . |