Example sentences of "[vb base] been at [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When I go back to the police station I 'll write today that I 've been at Harlowbury School all day doing a school visit and a school talk to different classes . |
2 | I 've been at bottom . |
3 | You 've been at school for years and what have you achieved ? |
4 | But that still boils down to the fact that everybody thinks they know how schools work cos they 've been at school themselves . |
5 | ‘ I 've been at sea a long time . |
6 | I mean I 've been at meetings where they ( IMG ) have said ‘ We 'll hand you ( rugby ) a cheque for $2 million ( £800,000 ) for the year . |
7 | I 've been at boarding-school since I was eight because my parents live abroad . |
8 | They 've been at loggerheads with the Government over a ten million pound capping row . |
9 | My standards have definitely dropped since I 've been at home with the baby . |
10 | ‘ Too often I 've been at home practising with a tournament still going on . |
11 | ‘ Well , you 've been at work all day ; we have n't seen you to tell you , ’ broke in Mrs Jones again . |
12 | I 've been at work all week . |
13 | While you 've been at work ? |
14 | I 've been at RAF Benson for four years , and some of the men have been here longer , so it will be sad to leave . |
15 | Well , I feel better than I was , but I 've been at Haywoods Heath which was a religious community |
16 | I 've been at trade shows before , but this is the big one . |
17 | The big centre-half who has eased veteran Kevin Moran out of the Republic of Ireland side for tonight 's group three qualifier against Latvia said : ‘ I 've been at Boro nine years and loved the club , but I 've got to quit now . |
18 | I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it . |
19 | ‘ In the 55 years I 've been at Paramount we 've lost a lot of giants , none more so than Hal Roach , ’ AC Lyles said in a tribute to his old friend . |
20 | You ca n't do , not when you 've been at pains to tell me what rubbish all this astrological mumbo-jumbo is . |
21 | I would have thought that you 'd be delighted to invite Calder back just to put your views across again , even though there is n't anything between you both , as you 've been at pains to tell me ! ’ |
22 | They 've been at war with us for three years , you see . ’ |
23 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
24 | I mean that 's what I mean about this hundred days , we 've been at war , and I think the job of the press , I mean is not |
25 | 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 . |
26 | According to Doe , the surface offers high resilience and durability and most recent installations have been at Loughborough University , Bexley LTC and Westside Club in Wimbledon . |
27 | However , since 1977 various other forces have been at work in the cities and , consequently , have affected the efficacy and relevance of inner-urban policy . |
28 | The two friends I went fishing with have been at work today but they have said nothing about any practical joke . |
29 | Yet just at that moment — one occasionally suspects that the mythmakers have been at work on the story — the lookout sighted sails on the western horizon . |
30 | The gremlins have been at work again ! |