Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] been at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 3 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 4 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
| 5 | This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place . |
| 6 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 7 | The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles . |
| 8 | It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him . |
| 9 | Well it would have been at one time . |
| 10 | The sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal presumably incorporates a discount to reflect the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , but there is no indication of the extent of the discount : the case is therefore of limited value as an indication of what the proper sentence would have been at first instance . |
| 11 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 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 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |