Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig . |
| 3 | Captain 'd been at Combe Court for ages and ages I think , cos he knew everyone , even the very poorly ones like Glenda . |
| 4 | He said he 'd been at Parkhead recently ( his son is in the reserves ) and Billy Bremner had been there . |
| 5 | Phil Lowe was as dangerous here as he had been at Wembley . |
| 6 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 7 | With Paul Foot , Booker and Ingrams had been at Shrewsbury in the early 1950s . |
| 8 | The fact that both men had been at Livingstone Manor intrigued him . |
| 9 | All told , of the forty-six male English lord lieutenants in 1990 , no less than thirty had been at Eton . |
| 10 | After the 1945 election more than a quarter of the Conservative parliamentary party had been at Eton . |
| 11 | In education the party conformed more to what would be expected : 196 MPs had been to public schools ( 68 per cent of the party , twice the proportion of Liberals ) and eighty-six of these had been at Eton , almost a third of the party . |
| 12 | Several of my family , including my grandfather , had been at Eton ; he , however , sent his sons , other than my father , to Winchester . |
| 13 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |
| 14 | If the Port is indeed the landscape listed in the catalogue , it is the first surviving Cubist painting to have been seen in a large public exhibition ( the Braque exhibition in the previous year had been at Kahnweiler 's gallery which was small and at that time known to relatively few people ) . |
| 15 | The majority of the day he had been at Ascot Races . |
| 16 | Edward Burne-Jones , who had been at Oxford with Morris and then shared a London house with him , was a regular visitor . |
| 17 | Sixteen had been at Oxford or Cambridge , as had the Prime Minister . |
| 18 | The University of California at Santa Barbara first attempted to headhunt Prof Cheetham , who had been at Oxford University for 26 years , in 1989 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In turn , Eleanor introduced her to someone else , a young woman named Mary Hammond-Heath , who had been at Oxford with Eleanor , and who was not much interested in being married . |
| 21 | And once he had been at Oxford , she said . |
| 22 | Tracey Cole had been at Oxford University for just eight days when her body was found in her study bedroom at Oxford University . |
| 23 | Her first job on leaving school had been at Whalbys ' . |
| 24 | Iran was now in a poor state in the war , and was about to be wiped out as the Russian Army had been at Tannenberg in 1914 : a disaster that had led to the rise of the Bolsheviks . |
| 25 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 26 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 27 | The pupil had been at Magdalen for a year , and then left to join the Army . |
| 28 | She was determined the wedding would be one for the young blind girl to remember , even though it was not likely to be attended by any of the Wychwood gipsies who had been at Boz 's marriage to Nahum 's sister . |
| 29 | Leith had been at G Vasey Ltd for two months when Sebastian , with his usual exuberance , came home from his travel agent 's job and told her that he was flying off to India on Friday for a holiday . |
| 30 | Kendall had been at King 's Cross . |