Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] been at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me that during the nine months he had been at the farm he and the others had noticed that the landscape had changed . |
| 2 | There was something decidedly odd about the engineering master ; his manner was always friendly , but , in the six months he had been at the school , Robert had not exchanged more than a few words with the man . |
| 3 | The majority of the day he had been at Ascot Races . |
| 4 | He could not afford to make mistakes ; all his life he had been at pains to learn and understand how ordinary people live and had delved into the seamier side of human nature , but he was still very unworldly . |
| 5 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |