Example sentences of "[pron] have been at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 5 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 6 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 7 | Since I had been at the university we had seen far less of each other . |
| 8 | I 've been at a desk for years ; I want no more of it and I told them . |
| 9 | ‘ The first half was the worst we 've ever had since I 've been at the club . |
| 10 | It may be a consolation for them to know that I 've been at the receiving end myself . |
| 11 | He said the area had ‘ an extremely unfair image because the majority of people on this estate want the best housing facilities and the best education for the children and that is certainly my view in the year and a half that I 've been at the school ’ . |
| 12 | Well , this is the thing , we have a caretaker but er fo for his services , but I 've been at the council and I have got nowhere , I have from the corporation , there 's an awful lot of people complaining but they 'll do nothing about it ! |
| 13 | I 've been at the top in television for a decade , you see , Blanche . |
| 14 | Cos it was due to sail on the same day , on the Sunday , you know what I mean and er it was these locks as I 'm telling you about and her a very , very famous firm and er my correspondence come from London because he had offices was there , you know and erm our erm I 've been at the service as I , if I might say so , but in most people it 's surprising how it get 's round and er the jobs that I 've had to do . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been at the Brooksby plant , ’ Rourke informed him briskly . |
| 16 | Someone had been at the office , of course . |
| 17 | For example , I have been at a venue like the Marquee club to check out a band for a record company and have also watched 30 minutes of the first act . |
| 18 | ‘ I could not have done , I have been at the high-road seeing to my traps ; but I saw that the rooks were disturbed . ’ |
| 19 | They 're all saying and they 're all talking but I 'm the only one , I have been at the council , I have been at the councillor , I have been at Waterloo Place , but nobody will back me up at all ! |
| 20 | They 're all saying and they 're all talking but I 'm the only one , I have been at the council , I have been at the councillor , I have been at Waterloo Place , but nobody will back me up at all ! |
| 21 | ‘ Unemployment is something that personally concerns me because I have been at the edge of unemployment all my life , ’ added the 42-year-old who speaks highly of the quality of the environment on Teesside , a much richer and more vibrant and pleasant place in which to live than he had imagined . |
| 22 | ‘ But blood is thicker than water and I have been at the hospital waiting to hear how she is but she has n't come round yet , ’ said Mr Harrison . |
| 23 | A number of issues are raised in the paper , but one of the companies which has been at the receiving end and has been canvassed for views , says : ‘ Part of the document looks as if it has been drafted by British Gas . ’ |
| 24 | This is a distinction which has been at the heart of a good deal of post-war curricular reform in the schools both in the USA and the UK ( see , for example , Bruner 1960 ) , and which will be explored further in due course . |
| 25 | Jet Services , which has been at the forefront of French multihull sailing , will build works skipper , Serge Madec a maxi likely to be designed by Gilles Ollier . |
| 26 | The decision ends a seven-month wait to settle the issue at the home which has been at the centre of allegations of declining standards . |
| 27 | A new national organisation will be launched this weekend to campaign to protect small historic towns and villages and among the founder members is Kirsty Thomas , secretary of the Save Our City group , which has been at the forefront of battles over development schemes in Durham City . |
| 28 | But the defensive laxity which has been at the root of Partick Thistle 's recent decline was not removed simply by taking such swingeing action . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |