Example sentences of "have be [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must 've been out at the wrong time . |
| 2 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 3 | Graham Townsend has been back at work for only 4 weeks . |
| 4 | A legend in the power boat world , Shurdington signwriter , John has been in at the top of his sport for over 30 years . |
| 5 | Maggie immediately thought of the lack of seagulls she 'd noticed when she 'd been down at the sea-front . |
| 6 | It was just that , well , I heard he 'd been down at the police station this morning . |
| 7 | They must have been up at Cambridge about the same time . |
| 8 | Carrie suddenly said , ‘ Your mum and I were worried about you , Seb , but all my dad could keep saying was , ‘ It 's a good job I managed to reach you when I did , or you 'd have been up at that farmhouse for another week . ’ ’ |
| 9 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 10 | No Chris should have been in at six , that 's when the first team started counting . |
| 11 | I would rather have been down at the villa making figgy hedgehogs for Tony but a promise is a promise . |
| 12 | The gate may have been down at Sanford Smith 's fourth annual Works on Paper exhibition in New York 's Park Avenue Armory from 3 to 5 April , but most of the participants had little to complain about . |
| 13 | ‘ She might have been down at the jetty a couple of hours ago . |
| 14 | Had she accepted , he might have been back at The priory now , with her as his bride . |
| 15 | I should have been back at school in Nigeria . |
| 16 | I should have been back at the office . |
| 17 | For those of us old enough to have been around at the time of the birth of rock ‘ n ’ roll , the idea of an advanced course in the music which made both us and our parents jump ( but in opposite directions ) may be hard to accommodate . |
| 18 | Madeira can claim to have been in at the birth of modern tourism , along with such famous nineteenth-century resorts as Baden-Baden , the Italian Lakes and the French Riviera . |
| 19 | " We in Christian Aid are proud to have been in at the start of this magazine which campaigns relentlessly for a better , fairer , environmentally purer and politically more aware world . |
| 20 | Vivien had been up at St Hugh 's , so I was looking forward to her being an excellent guide . |
| 21 | The guys who had been up at Lockerbie , after Pan Am 103 , working alongside the British police , they did n't know how lucky they 'd been … |
| 22 | Jarvis Stringer 's grandparents ' qualifications for keeping a school were that he had been up at Oxford where he had read Greats and she had left Goldsmith 's College halfway through her teacher training . |
| 23 | Slorne , who had been up at the back of her cage most of the day as usual , suddenly opened her wings , swung round and dropped down to the front of her cage . |
| 24 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 25 | If International had been around at the time of the Vikings , there 's little doubt whose paint would have been used to keep those marauding longships in prime condition . |
| 26 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 27 | Pam had been out at a friend 's all evening . |
| 28 | They had been back at Ca' del Leone a little over two hours when Maureen phoned . |
| 29 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 30 | I went to Scotland Yard this morning and saw an Inspector and told him all about our suspicions , and about how we knew Nigel had been down at Streatley that Saturday — ’ |