Example sentences of "had be at [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had been at it for three months now . |
| 2 | She did not try on the apricot chiffon , with panels of silver beads back and front , some of them loosened , some vanished away as though a bead-eating insect had been at it . |
| 3 | Coffin had been at it long enough to know that was the way truth lay , that in the untidiness lay the answers . |
| 4 | The rats had been at it , the body is already half-gnawed . ’ |
| 5 | They had been at it for over two and a half hours before the searchlight finally picked out the slumped body in the yard of an abandoned farm at over a thousand metres on the slopes of Mount Guffone . |
| 6 | As though the mice had been at it . |
| 7 | She had been at it . |