Example sentences of "had be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 2 | Nobody was quite sure how many degrees he had started and not finished , not even Boris , but he had been at the place so long he could remember when they used to spell it Freshmen 's Fair . |
| 3 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 4 | In short , Ulster remained more of a violent backwater , removed from the mainstream of British social development , at the end of the 1970s than it had been at the start of that troubled decade . |
| 5 | Or rather , as Rachel had been at pains to point out , a misunderstanding of Lamark 's theory of learned characteristics being inherited . |
| 6 | She could not help but pause in her misery to be proud of the fact that , without her supervision , they had been at work in the garden . |
| 7 | Dr. Crocker and Wexford had been at school together . |
| 8 | Mrs. Browne had been at their Mayfair flat and seen them all off together . |
| 9 | The pupil had been at Magdalen for a year , and then left to join the Army . |
| 10 | He could not afford to make mistakes ; all his life he had been at pains to learn and understand how ordinary people live and had delved into the seamier side of human nature , but he was still very unworldly . |
| 11 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 12 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 13 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 14 | They were all built around the 1720s and all have bold keystones and this dramatic and sometimes swooping raised centre : as though a countrified Vanbrugh or Thomas Archer had been at work . |
| 15 | Edward Burne-Jones , who had been at Oxford with Morris and then shared a London house with him , was a regular visitor . |
| 16 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |
| 17 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 18 | Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with . |
| 19 | Morale had been at its highest for years , up to the moment that the news had reached them that Merseyside was out . |
| 20 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 21 | Ari found it was strangely comforting to be told how confused Ewan had been at the time he 'd turned his back on his family . |
| 22 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 23 | All told , of the forty-six male English lord lieutenants in 1990 , no less than thirty had been at Eton . |
| 24 | Of the twenty non-royal knights who processed into the chapel , all except for the two former Labour prime ministers had been at public schools . |
| 25 | After the 1945 election more than a quarter of the Conservative parliamentary party had been at Eton . |
| 26 | After the 1987 election , scarcely more than a tenth ( eleven per cent ) of MPs had been at the school . |
| 27 | Sixteen had been at Oxford or Cambridge , as had the Prime Minister . |
| 28 | Another fifty-four who had been at state schools were also Oxbridge graduates . |
| 29 | They had helped with their mother 's care when she had been at home , and taken part in planning her funeral . |
| 30 | Iran was now in a poor state in the war , and was about to be wiped out as the Russian Army had been at Tannenberg in 1914 : a disaster that had led to the rise of the Bolsheviks . |