Example sentences of "'ve [be] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been at bottom . |
| 2 | You 've been at school for years and what have you achieved ? |
| 3 | But that still boils down to the fact that everybody thinks they know how schools work cos they 've been at school themselves . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been at sea a long time . |
| 5 | I 've been at boarding-school since I was eight because my parents live abroad . |
| 6 | My standards have definitely dropped since I 've been at home with the baby . |
| 7 | ‘ Too often I 've been at home practising with a tournament still going on . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , you 've been at work all day ; we have n't seen you to tell you , ’ broke in Mrs Jones again . |
| 9 | I 've been at work all week . |
| 10 | While you 've been at work ? |
| 11 | I 've been at trade shows before , but this is the big one . |
| 12 | I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it . |
| 13 | They 've been at war with us for three years , you see . ’ |
| 14 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 15 | I mean that 's what I mean about this hundred days , we 've been at war , and I think the job of the press , I mean is not |