Example sentences of "[been] at [det] " in BNC.

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1 They have been at each others ' throats .
2 They have been at each others ' throats .
3 They have been at each others ' throats .
4 Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years .
5 I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most .
6 It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began .
7 The Reverend Peter Brown , Convener of the Social Matters Committee for the Orkney Presbytery , began to investigate the actions of the Evangelical Charismatic Movement in Orkney , and whether any members of the Orkney Christian Fellowship had been at that seminar .
8 I 'm very glad to have been at that rally in Sheffield , because it was a historic moment .
9 Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave .
10 They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either .
11 She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat .
12 And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished .
13 So I would think it 's just always been at that that site .
14 I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism .
15 One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight .
16 And they would have been at that muckle supper .
17 Have you been at that gym tonight ?
18 At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing .
19 On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation .
20 It is certainly not true of Arab public opinion which has long ago accepted the ‘ linkage ’ that Washington has been at such pains to discount .
21 He had been at such pains .
22 The tension between them , the sexual feeling , had been at such a pitch .
23 Never before has the nation 's mood and morale been at such a low ebb , never before such a vote of no confidence in the country , writes Rob Brown
24 She would n't have sought her independence at all if it had n't been at such .
25 Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt .
26 Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur .
27 She would n't have been at all surprised if she were .
28 Over three-quarters of credit users reckon that its cost has been reasonable ( see Appendix I , Table 24 ) , and less than one in ten say it has been at all unreasonable .
29 It is simply that interest rates have not been an important part of their own calculations of credit costliness ( nor , indeed , have they been at all prominent in credit advertising ) .
30 This has not been at all easy .
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