Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Burne-Jones , who had been at Oxford with Morris and then shared a London house with him , was a regular visitor . |
| 2 | Another fifty-four who had been at state schools were also Oxbridge graduates . |
| 3 | The University of California at Santa Barbara first attempted to headhunt Prof Cheetham , who had been at Oxford University for 26 years , in 1989 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was the slumber of a man who had been at his cups for some considerable time . |
| 6 | . 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | While they were there , Peggy ( who had been at a boarding school in Pretoria ) was able to resume her ballet classes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Before long though , Harold meets his future wife Isobel , who had been at college with Agnes Fogerty , and they live happily ever after . |
| 11 | The story about how he asked the head of current affairs , Liz Forgan , who had been at the Guardian , was equally idiosyncratic . |
| 12 | There had been a recent incident involving my younger brother , Russell , who had been at a party and on his way home been accosted by a group of men that he knew , who were in a car . |
| 13 | ‘ All the older pros used to take the mickey out of us , but then one day in a practice match Ian went past Jim Cannon , who had been at the club for ages , and he did n't like it . |
| 14 | This was a task for which Wilson Jr , who had been at best an indifferent driver himself , was palpably unfitted . |
| 15 | He felt a pang of jealousy , which was intensified when he remembered the smart army officers who had been at her husband 's memorial service . |
| 16 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 17 | She had a thin , satisfied smile on her face , which not even a few smirks and elbow nudgings among those ladies who had been at the tea could banish . |
| 18 | To be expected to relinquish this power , and give up some of the spoils to the likes of SARU , who had been at the forefront in demanding the non-participation of the Springboks in international competition since it was ‘ impossible to play normal sport in an abnormal society ’ , must , understandably , be a difficult to swallow . |
| 19 | It is useless to speculate why he chose him , rather than one of the monks of Bec or Caen who had been at Canterbury throughout Lanfranc 's tenure of the archbishopric . |
| 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 | Peter Boardman , who had been at School between 1956 and 1969 , was one of the best-known names in British mountaineering at this period . |
| 22 | At Pemberley the ‘ many family portraits … could have little to fix the attention of a stranger ’ ; at Sotherton they are ‘ no longer any thing to any body but Mrs Rushworth , who had been at great pains to learn all that the housekeeper could teach ’ . |
| 23 | Tact and discretion he had used , and he dared say that Dierdriu had been told who had been at the back of it . |
| 24 | I asked several people besides Demetriades , who had been at the school only a year , whether Leverrier , Mitford 's predecessor , or Mitford himself had ever spoken about meeting Conchis . |
| 25 | It consisted of the advisory teacher , an educational psychologist and sixteen of the teachers who had been at the course . |
| 26 | She said it was a routine enquiry and the police were interviewing everybody who had been at Ken O'Mara 's farewell . |
| 27 | Blanche coughed and responded that the police were talking to everyone who had been at the farewell party on the sixth floor , including Parkin and Pargeter . |
| 28 | Jane Pargeter was not particularly popular on the programme either , but several people who had been at the party supported her story that she had not left the party at all until Nicola 's body had been found . |
| 29 | The Portuguese took an action against Clerke in the High Court of Admiralty , supported by testimonies from an English ship 's master who had been at Fermeuse , though no conclusion to the action has been found . |
| 30 | Comments from a teacher who had been at the school for two years added credence to the points raised in the above dialogues stating that there is ‘ racism ’ amongst staff within the school : |