Example sentences of "i [vb past] [be] at the " 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 The next time I noticed was at the terminus
5 The only poor shot I hit was at the 14th , when a little wedge went right over the green . ’
6 ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already .
7 Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end .
8 ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better .
9 Since I had been at the university we had seen far less of each other .
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