Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
2 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
3 | It had been at one time , going back over a hundred and fifty years , it had been what they called a combination poorhouse . |
4 | The Reverend Peter Brown , Convener of the Social Matters Committee for the Orkney Presbytery , began to investigate the actions of the Evangelical Charismatic Movement in Orkney , and whether any members of the Orkney Christian Fellowship had been at that seminar . |
5 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
6 | Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards . |
7 | All the dancing that she had ever done had been at three school dances , and in sessions for instruction in the art of the polka , the mazurka , and the tarantella , and she did not think they would be much help to her now . |
8 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
9 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
10 | This did not mean a dramatic drop in popularity : indeed , his approval rating was higher in 1966 and early 1967 than it had been at any point since the Algerian crisis . |
11 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
12 | Ever since he had been at high school he 'd found some enjoyment and relief by getting back at them in ways they obviously did n't expect . |
13 | Twelve minutes from time Weir had the misfortune to turn a John Eggleston short corner drive into his own net after Raphoe keeper Davy Buchanan had been at full stretch . |
14 | Middlesbrough had been at full stretch against Cambridge 's direct , high-ball game and their own attack posed little threat in the first half . |