Example sentences of "[vb past] be at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | the reasons why the item involved was at the location ; |
| 2 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I just thought he 'd been at the whisky even more than usual , and ignored him . |
| 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 | He 'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city . |
| 6 | Andy told me Howie and another two locals jumped a couple of travellers who 'd been at the party as well . |
| 7 | Erm that probably because they 'd been at the bottom so long , er it did n't appear that there was |
| 8 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 11 | ‘ T is how I learned that you 'd been at the castle . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the week that he 'd been at the helm of the Anpetuwi ship there had been a remarkable change in atmosphere . |
| 14 | They 'd been at the Nuffield Press in Oxford all their working lives until this week . |
| 15 | The next time I noticed was at the terminus |
| 16 | What happened is at the beginning of last year , Yvonne said to me er , we have lived in this house for three years , we must decorate it . |
| 17 | The only poor shot I hit was at the 14th , when a little wedge went right over the green . ’ |
| 18 | What is our concern , though , is the notion of love which he saw was at the centre of understanding the work of Christ . |
| 19 | He admitted being at the Savoy nightclub that evening but said he had gone home with a friend . |
| 20 | Since the Headmaster had been in a bad mood almost everything anyone did was at the risk of being punished . |
| 21 | ‘ I am satisfied that there are no grounds on which I can say that these charges are bad , but with regard to the equity of redemption I am satisfied on the evidence that what Mrs. Wardman did was at the request of and in reliance on her daughter , and under her influence . |
| 22 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 23 | Nobody was quite sure how many degrees he had started and not finished , not even Boris , but he had been at the place so long he could remember when they used to spell it Freshmen 's Fair . |
| 24 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 25 | In short , Ulster remained more of a violent backwater , removed from the mainstream of British social development , at the end of the 1970s than it had been at the start of that troubled decade . |
| 26 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 27 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 28 | Ari found it was strangely comforting to be told how confused Ewan had been at the time he 'd turned his back on his family . |
| 29 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 30 | After the 1987 election , scarcely more than a tenth ( eleven per cent ) of MPs had been at the school . |