Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 2 | But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig . |
| 3 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 4 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 5 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
| 6 | I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school . |
| 7 | ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on . |
| 8 | And of course a lot of the engineering was on textile machinery and er I did n't , I just would n't go back to it after I 'd been at it about a couple of years . |
| 9 | Erm and at that ti but other than that , mind you I su I suppose that if , if I 'd been at home I should have probably been expected to be in , but I do n't think I should have been locked out . |
| 10 | I felt like a Run , so I left my jacket near the Pole I 'd been at the day Diggs had come with the news , and tucked the catapult tightly between my cords and my belt . |
| 11 | The next time I noticed was at the terminus |
| 12 | When I moves to this area just over two years ago I knew no-one , my two older children were at school and , although I enjoyed being at home with my two-year-old toddler , I felt that I was getting past the stage of discussing sleepless nights and dirty nappies ! |
| 13 | Before , I loved being at home but I loved being in work too and I do miss it , the girls and all . |
| 14 | The only poor shot I hit was at the 14th , when a little wedge went right over the green . ’ |
| 15 | the first piece of Bhimji 's work I saw was at her degree show at Goldsmiths ' College in 1987 . |
| 16 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 17 | I had been at St Andrew 's House barely a week , when a telegram arrived at my parents ' home : |
| 18 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 19 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
| 20 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 21 | As far as I was concerned , when I had been at Bourn a month I felt I had lived there for years . |
| 22 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 23 | I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work . |
| 24 | If I had been at my gun , I would have been dissected . |
| 25 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 26 | Since I had been at the university we had seen far less of each other . |
| 27 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 28 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 29 | Happily I had been at school with this fellow and was able to contact him on my next leave , and to persuade him that it would be a pity to spoil his good name by killing me . |
| 30 | Someone had been at the office , of course . |