Example sentences of "had [adv] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My reasons for so soon destroying my drawings were these ; though I dare say that they do n't appear so rational to any one but myself : I was obliged to limit the work — in order to get more subscribers — & to erase the drawings — because the expense is considerable for keeping them on , & I have pretty great difficulty in paying my monthly charges , — for to pay colourer & printer monthly I am obstinately pre-possessed — since I had rather be at the bottom of the River Thames — than be one week in debt — be it never so small . |
| 2 | My mother and Marie Claire and Lili had all been at school together in Egypt . |
| 3 | The 12 member country heads of government attending the Maastricht meeting had all been at the Rome summit and at Luxembourg in June 1991 [ see pp. 38295-97 ] . |
| 4 | Borg had only been at Meadow Park since late last season , when he was appointed following the dismissal of John Clements . |
| 5 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 6 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
| 7 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 8 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 9 | Eva had only been at Usher a couple of months and was preparing to go to the International College for Officers ( ICO ) in London on a refresher course after her long years overseas . |
| 10 | One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks … |
| 11 | As the royal party came through the school gates , however , an entire youth brass orchestra , who again had obviously been at the ready for several hours on a cold wintry day , burst into life in the playground . |
| 12 | Although this put dioxins in the public spotlight , there had already been at least nine similar accidents , including one in Derbyshire in 1968 and in Germany in 1953 . |
| 13 | Yesterday , Miss Emily Grenfell had momentarily been at a loss , wanting to know where her fiance was and realizing to her dismay that his safety was in the hands of the shoemaker 's daughter . |
| 14 | Pinto , who made a winning debut in Carpi , Portugal , in 1991 , and had led his club Benfica to the European Cup , had always been at the front among a big group early on . |
| 15 | John had always been at his best at Christmas , gay , funny , sweet , considerate . |
| 16 | When I was writing an essay on Bernard Shaw , I read in one biography that he had attended a Wesleyan school and had always been at the bottom of his form . |
| 17 | She hated arriving at places unannounced and , although Charles Caldecott had always been at his most ingratiating when he met her , that had been on social occasions . |
| 18 | He had liked her , respected her , had always been at ease in her company , but he had never thought that he really knew her , and now he never would . |
| 19 | Previously there had always been at least the possibility that it might be wound up after its current voyages were complete but under Cromwell the traders reorganized its joint-stock system so that , while individual owners might sell their shares , the Company was designed to go on trading forever ; and almost all companies founded subsequently were organized in the same way . |
| 20 | He had always been at his best when he was pressed hardest . |
| 21 | Things might have been a little different if Tony Crosland had still been at the Department of Education and Science , but I doubt it . |
| 22 | He had twice before seen the Colonel walk through the garden to Dr Tariq 's office , but on each occasion his assistants had still been at work . |
| 23 | I suddenly knew I had either to behave like a shocked girl who had still been at school that time the year before ; or like an adult . |
| 24 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |
| 25 | Neil 's mother Carole Holmes , of Sherburn Road , Durham , had also been at his bedside . |
| 26 | John Cleese and Eric Idle who had both been at Cambridge with him had had no idea . |
| 27 | Rufus put up two or three names , one being of someone they had both been at school with . |
| 28 | Jake had had no real friends except Ben ; he had often been at the house in those old days , never saying much , but good at mending broken toys and constructing dolls out of handkerchiefs and folded paper . |
| 29 | This avoided the appearance of lowering rates which had often been at a " customary " level for a generation or more . |
| 30 | Ben had even been at it all through the war . |