Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just off Highway 83 north of Wellington , Texas , he came across the abandoned house of Mr and Mrs Sam Pritchard , who were unlucky enough to have been at home when the gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker paid a call after their car had plunged off the road . |
| 2 | It was an unforgettable night for the challenger and those fortunate enough to have been at ringside . |
| 3 | It was a clear hour after Bissett would normally have been at his desk . |
| 4 | He tried to visualize its brown wooden bottom — he could not — there must still have been at least one sheet there . |
| 5 | ‘ The Home Secretary always escorts the Queen to the door and could not possibly have been at the Cenotaph before her . ’ |
| 6 | However the girls took the dog upstairs where it wolfed all that was left of the lasagne and went to sleep in front of the hearth , quieter than it ever had been at the Castello Crocetto . |
| 7 | Once had been at the theatre , when she had walked into the foyer and received a thoroughly unpleasant jolt when she had seen him standing only yards away , and the second time had been at a party . |
| 8 | He had no idea what he was going to do and if the crow had ignored hid he would probably have been at a loss . |
| 9 | Both seem to have attracted around 30 people ; Hague , named last year as the fittest man in the House , would probably have been at home in either . |
| 10 | Other factors may also have been at work . |
| 11 | Gloucester 's influence may also have been at work in the selection of a duchy of Lancaster lawyer as the new recorder of London in June 1483 , although the man concerned ( Thomas Fitzwilliam of Mablethorpe , Lincs. ) preserved a studied neutrality when , only days after his appointment , he found himself in the middle of the deposition crisis . |
| 12 | Gloucester 's influence may also have been at work in the selection of a duchy of Lancaster lawyer as the new recorder of London in June 1483 , although the man concerned ( Thomas Fitzwilliam of Mablethorpe , Lincs. ) preserved a studied neutrality when , only days after his appointment , he found himself in the middle of the deposition crisis . |
| 13 | After had been at U.C.L. for a few months , the C.R.C . |
| 14 | The two men also have been at odds over Israel 's Middle East policy , with Mr Levy pushing for greater flexibility in talks with the Arabs and against straining relations with the United States . |
| 15 | Yeah That 's the only bit I hated I 'd rather have been at work all week and I did n't |
| 16 | Hitherto , our provision here has been at best haphazard , and at worst deplorable . |
| 17 | It may well have been at this moment , in the autumn of 1419 , that Henry V decided that the crown of France , which none of his predecessors had achieved , might be his . |
| 18 | Once the ability to create symbolic signals and rearrange them was in place , individuals that accomplished this more effectively might well have been at an advantage over those who did it less effectively in terms of all the benefits that come from co-operation . |
| 19 | It was an insignificant point in its way , for Harry knew from Marjorie Mallender that Clare had met Minter whilst at Oxford — he must simply have been at another college — yet somehow his faith in his own reasoning was undermined . |
| 20 | She praises the risk takers , wealth creators , people who are frequently from modest backgrounds and who may not even have been at a university . |
| 21 | Before that stage is reached , however , there will invariably have been at least one case conference with social workers , paediatricians , child psychologists and others and as Senior Solicitor it is my responsibility to ensure all important case conferences receive legal advice on the evidence available and the prospects of success . ’ |
| 22 | Britain by then had been at war with Germany for two years , but the Soviet Union was only drawn into the conflict in June by a sudden German invasion , whilst the US entered the war in December after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . |
| 23 | He said figures revealed there from 1978–93 there had been at least 57 suicides within the force but that the police authorities were reluctant to admit this . |
| 24 | Another seven people murdered in Northern Ireland , a dreadful end to a dreadful week , and yet on Friday there had been at least a little optimism in the air , John Major and Albert Reynolds getting together in Brussels for what were billed as substantive talks , where does all that go now ? |
| 25 | Police say there have been at least 50 armed robberies of tourists in the Orlando area so far this year . |
| 26 | Something like the last few sentences must however have been at least a part of Tolkien 's intention . |
| 27 | ‘ Mine never has been at a Channel port . |
| 28 | I see that the television game show that inspired letters to you recently has been at it again . |
| 29 | Religion must certainly have been at the forefront of his mind when , shooting the sharks , he twice looked death directly in the face . |
| 30 | He too had been at Oxford , studying Science , and he was another of the twelve prize recruits who marched away from the City of Dreaming Spires . |