Example sentences of "[been] at [det] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 'm very glad to have been at that rally in Sheffield , because it was a historic moment . |
| 7 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 8 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 9 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 10 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 11 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Have you been at that gym tonight ? |
| 16 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had been at such pains . |
| 21 | The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 22 | I have been at those dinners where the merits of our contemporaries are discussed , and where Du Camp , as each new name was suggested , would with infinite urbanity correct the general view . |
| 23 | When she walked into the kitchen her mother looked up and said , ‘ Where on earth have you been at this hour . |
| 24 | Joanne works at a grammar school and almost all her teaching experience has been at this school . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 27 | Henry Newbolt was at this time Hewlett 's neighbour in Wiltshire , and it seems to have been at this Christmas time that Hewlett took Pound to see Newbolt , who figures elsewhere in Canto 80 : |
| 28 | It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him . |
| 29 | I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be . |
| 30 | 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 . |