Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Patten , who has been at the Home Office as Minister of State for four years , has clearly harboured doubts about his decision to turn down that Arts job . |
| 2 | Sister Linda Buckland , who has been at the General for the past ten years , expressed mixed emotions . |
| 3 | Much may be blamed on the impermeable Alan Beith , who has been at Berwick since 1973 and thinks nothing to striding round five villages , after starting on Holy Island in the sort of rain that suggests God getting out the strap , and then darting up to Duns in what was Berwickshire , Scotland , to do a broadcast . |
| 4 | Snell , who has been at the station for nine years , said : ‘ This woman really wound me up . |
| 5 | Whitlock , who has been at the centre of the storm , has not made himself available to take part . |
| 6 | On the other hand , any artist who has been at the game long enough will have developed preferences for certain kinds of subject matter , for example Degas ' dancing girls , Céanne 's mountain , or Connard 's bathroom . |
| 7 | Stützer , who has been at Kamekestrasse since 1980 and whose programme consists mainly of sculpture , is , until 6 June , showing neo-Constructivist works by the Yugoslav-born sculptor Wasa Marjanov . |
| 8 | The department , headed by Mr Jeff Barker who has been at the University for 27 years , caters for the two dining rooms at the Revis Barber and Dennis Bellamy Halls , serving breakfast and dinner to the 400 students Monday to Friday , breakfast and lunch Saturday and Sunday . |
| 9 | Raymond Tovey , who has been at the school since 1982 , is taking early retirement . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , we know of the legend , ’ said Gladys McDonald who has been at the Chequers , no longer an inn , for 32 years . |
| 11 | Judy , who has been at the pub for just over a year , spent thousands of pounds refurbishing the Grey Horse and it had been a long-time ambition to run a pub of her own . |
| 12 | Geoff , who has been at his pub for 15 years , plans to leave in June . |
| 13 | Geoff , who has been at the Post House Wynd pub for eight years , said a temporary manager would move in today . |
| 14 | The troughs are realising you have forgotten something you learned right at the beginning , finding out you have been saying ‘ taste ’ instead of ‘ try ’ for six months , falling asleep over vocabulary , believing you are ready to understand speeches without help and discovering you are not , being corrected by another non-native speaker who has been at it the same time as you , and taking an hour to tell a Lada joke . |
| 15 | Willie Crosbie , who has been at Castlebrae High School for 15 years , was presented with the Woman magazine award yesterday , in recognition of his efforts to turn around the school 's unenviable reputation . |
| 16 | A MAN who has been at the centre of planning in North East Wales for more than 30 years will retire this month from public office , and turn his attention to private consultancy . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's an obsession , ’ admitted clerical worker Tom , who has been at the Courtaulds Coatings UK site for 39 years . |
| 18 | Andy told me Howie and another two locals jumped a couple of travellers who 'd been at the party as well . |
| 19 | Both Lady Amory and Sir John liked to get their hands in the soil — they did all the planting and arranging of the beds themselves — but they also had two willing helpers , gardeners who 'd been at Knightshayes for years , and some foresters . |
| 20 | Johnny Smart , who 'd been at Oxford with him and edited one of the university magazines , landed what seemed then an amazing job on the Evening Standard . |
| 21 | Edward Burne-Jones , who had been at Oxford with Morris and then shared a London house with him , was a regular visitor . |
| 22 | Another fifty-four who had been at state schools were also Oxbridge graduates . |
| 23 | The University of California at Santa Barbara first attempted to headhunt Prof Cheetham , who had been at Oxford University for 26 years , in 1989 . |
| 24 | Cameron did not mind about that , even when Harvey Broadribb , who had been at Juillard with him , won the Academy Award for his work on the movie . |
| 25 | It was the slumber of a man who had been at his cups for some considerable time . |
| 26 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 27 | Banbury in the 1960s was still full of professional and trades people who had been at the school before or immediately after the Second World War . |
| 28 | While they were there , Peggy ( who had been at a boarding school in Pretoria ) was able to resume her ballet classes . |
| 29 | Miss Fogerty had never been so happy as she was now , living with Dorothy and next door to another old friend , Isobel Shoosmith , who had been at college with her years before . |
| 30 | Before long though , Harold meets his future wife Isobel , who had been at college with Agnes Fogerty , and they live happily ever after . |