Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [been] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first meeting had been at York in 1831 ; thereafter the Association visited the university cities of Oxford , Cambridge , Edinburgh and Dublin , before in 1836 venturing to Bristol and subsequently to other large towns . |
| 2 | Captain 'd been at Combe Court for ages and ages I think , cos he knew everyone , even the very poorly ones like Glenda . |
| 3 | The pupil had been at Magdalen for a year , and then left to join the Army . |
| 4 | In angry self-reproach , Louisa saw how much sooner it should have been evident to her that in identifying so completely with his most noble ancestor , her father had been at pains to exclude all thought of his more immediate and darker legacy . |
| 5 | Albert and his young assistant had been at loggerheads for years now . |
| 6 | Iran was now in a poor state in the war , and was about to be wiped out as the Russian Army had been at Tannenberg in 1914 : a disaster that had led to the rise of the Bolsheviks . |
| 7 | So Ling had been at Silas too , she thought . |
| 8 | Their anticipation had been at fever pitch for days . |
| 9 | Her first job on leaving school had been at Whalbys ' . |
| 10 | If the Port is indeed the landscape listed in the catalogue , it is the first surviving Cubist painting to have been seen in a large public exhibition ( the Braque exhibition in the previous year had been at Kahnweiler 's gallery which was small and at that time known to relatively few people ) . |
| 11 | Until the sixties the headquarters of the Legion had been at Side Bel Abbe s in Algeria , the country which for 150 years had been the Legion 's home . |
| 12 | So — the grapevine had been at work , had it ? |
| 13 | His last sight of her reliquary had been at morning Mass . |
| 14 | Esther was also offered places at both universities , and chose Cambridge because it offered her a scholarship , and because her brother had been at King 's , and because she heard an owl hoot thrice in the college garden when she retired to her narrow bed after the glass of wine with Flora Piercy . |
| 15 | David Livingstone , father of Andrew and of the same address , said his son had been at home weight training when he was supposed to be out throwing stones . |
| 16 | After the 1945 election more than a quarter of the Conservative parliamentary party had been at Eton . |