Example sentences of "[adv] [been] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd rarely been at school , went into domestic service , could n't read , but can write her name , then got married . |
| 2 | These ancestors have long since been at rest , but during their time around Pelynt there was between them bitter jealousy , treachery and hatred , leading even to murder . |
| 3 | Borg had only been at Meadow Park since late last season , when he was appointed following the dismissal of John Clements . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I met him at a dance held in the Airmen 's Mess ( so romantic ! ) , when I 'd only been at Binbrook three weeks . |
| 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 | But this has only been at the ‘ official ’ level ; as Sykes ( 1958 ) and many subsequent studies have shown , loss of a sense of physical security is still one of the major ‘ pains of imprisonment ’ as perceived by inmates . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd only been at Rangers five minutes when he offered me the use of his villa in Florida . |
| 12 | It 's pretty boring here and I 've only been at Auntie Jane 's just over a day . |
| 13 | One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks … |
| 14 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 15 | Britain has proved to be one of the least ‘ community-minded ’ members of the EEC and has for long been at odds with other states about the level of British contributions to the EEC budget . |
| 16 | California has long been at the green cutting edge , and had the bill been passed , other states and possibly nations may have followed in its wake . |
| 17 | Ian Lloyd Jones , Chris Jex , C. Allen and R. Wright have all been at work in the Llanberis slate quarries , although their findings are rather too numerous to record in detail . |
| 18 | My mother and Marie Claire and Lili had all been at school together in Egypt . |
| 19 | 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 ] . |
| 20 | You realise they 've all been at it a lot longer than I have . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was Hermione , genuinely concerned because she had not been at school ; someone who had missed her . |
| 23 | Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt . |
| 24 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 25 | Justicz commented on Oxford 's ‘ very nice ’ rhythm and felt the Dark Blues had been able to capitalise whenever Cambridge had not been at their best . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ Whereas in the previous downturn in the 1980s when a lot of cyclical companies were haemorraging cash , this time the pressure on profits has not been at the expense of their financial position . ’ |
| 27 | Perhaps it was because the Americans had not been at the Moscow Olympics that he was n't sure of himself ; yet he had beaten them later . |
| 28 | Wright said : ‘ I recognised that , in the previous two games , I had not been at my best . |
| 29 | Someone with Walker 's pace and knowhow would be a prize addition to a defence which has not been at its ruthless best during the Gunners ' recent barren run . |
| 30 | This has not been at all easy . |