Example sentences of "he had been at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of the day he had been at Ascot Races . |
| 2 | Phil Lowe was as dangerous here as he had been at Wembley . |
| 3 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 4 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 5 | But Dyson 's opinion of him , which had risen noticeably on hearing that he had been at King 's , had fallen back to zero again ; his having been at King 's was cancelled out by his having been right about his instructions to join Dyson 's department . |
| 6 | And once he had been at Oxford , she said . |
| 7 | When my cousin , who was to be in the locality ( one did not ask why at that time , and it was only after we were both freed of our vows of secrecy more than thirty years later that he told me he had been at Bletchley Park itself ) suggested coming to visit me , Mrs Sugden had no doubt but that this was my ‘ gentleman friend ’ . |
| 8 | He had been at Cambridge just after the last war , had fought with the International Brigade in Spain and had joined the R.A.F. as an air-gunner in 194O . |
| 9 | He had been at Cambridge , where he got his Blue for rowing . |
| 10 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |