Example sentences of "been [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been weeping at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 2 | A comparable building complex has also been examined at Godmanchester , built c . |
| 3 | So far convoys of humanitarian aid have been stopped at will by the militias and held up for days , if not weeks , despite their protection by armed UN peacekeepers . |
| 4 | They were there only because they 'd been stopped at gunpoint from going any farther — by the Turkish army , a key NATO ally of the US and Britain . |
| 5 | By 1932 Gallacher had been joined at Chelsea by his two fellow internationalists Jackson and Cheyne and the three Scots became the focus of an acrimonious dispute about wages , trade unionism and bonus payments . |
| 6 | On it we would have found the names of other distinguished old Summerhillians … unfortunately , Eric has been delayed at Stonehenge , and has not yet got to grips with the design . |
| 7 | The budget in the table assumes the cost of sow huts , water and fencing , tractor and trailer have all been amortised at 13% over five years . |
| 8 | It had been intended at Vatican I to complement the papal definitions with something much wider , but pressure from Franco-Prussian conflict combined , maybe , with a lack of Roman interest in a larger agenda , prevented anything further from being said . |
| 9 | Paintings from the last decade of his life have been gathered at Marlborough until 27 April . |
| 10 | It is likely that the whole village was deliberately planned , possibly with a revitalised field system , since solskifte , a regulated field system , has now been traced at Wharram Percy . |
| 11 | The disgraceful way ordinary , moderate men and women have been sacked at Timex and the way this government cheapened the working man and woman in this country by rejecting the Social Charter and by portraying Britain as a low wage economy . |
| 12 | It was the third time in three weeks that such ugly scenes had been witnessed at London grounds . |
| 13 | She 's the same as we 've all been treated at home |
| 14 | The Princess , the hospital 's president , was presented with flowers by Susan Peek , 10 , and Andrew Tedder , 14 , who have been treated at Great Ormond Street . |
| 15 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 16 | Some of the best preserved buildings have been excavated at Cowdery 's Down and can be arranged sequentially into a minimum of three phases ( Millett 1983 ) . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly turquoise has frequently been excavated at sites on the Iranian plateau , notably at Hissar and Yahya . |
| 18 | Soil has also been excavated at Pett Level ( to provide material for the sea wall ) , leaving a series of lakes . |
| 19 | A large rock-cut tomb dating to 1600–1500 BC has been excavated at Katsamba ; its grave-goods included pottery cups , engraved seals ( one imported from Syria ) , and inlaid gold rings . |
| 20 | Cheque book journalism has been pointed at Madge but luckily she 's weathered the storm or else , ’ Dame Edna paused dramatically , ‘ she 'd be back on the streets . ’ |
| 21 | There have been reports about an increasing number of people suffering from food poisoning and accusing fingers have been pointed at food manufacturers , distributors , caterers and even consumers . |
| 22 | Women have been enrolled at West Point , the United States Naval Academy and the Air Force Academy since the mid-1970s , when Congress passed a law that required women to be admitted to the federal military academies . |
| 23 | SVQs in floristry have been accredited at levels I and II . |
| 24 | From this it is clear that the idea of breaking up L Detachment had been floated at headquarters , using the excuse of a shortage of manpower . |
| 25 | Having been floated at 585p , Waste Management succumbed to profit-taking , the shares easing 11 to 644p . |
| 26 | Tupper tells the story that for the evening following that most notorious of all war crimes committed between 1914 and 1918 , the torpedoing and sinking by a German U-boat of the unarmed liner Lusitania , with 702 seamen and over 1,000 passengers , including women and children on board , on 7 May 1915 , a concert had been arranged at Eastcote , with artistes from London and Northampton . |
| 27 | In March an indoor games evening has been arranged at Mitchell 's Social Club and a quiz night is being planned for April at the same venue . |
| 28 | Title to the property is and has at all material times been registered at H.M. |
| 29 | The transfer to its mortgagors , the Hammonds , and its own legal charge had been registered at H.M. |
| 30 | Thomas Borrow , the author 's father , had been baptised at St. Cleer in 1759 and when of age , apprenticed to a Liskeard maltster named Hambly . |