Example sentences of "been at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be . |
| 2 | Ever dug up a bed of apparently flourishing potatoes , only to find the tubers riddles with holes where the slugs have been at them ? |
| 3 | James Flemyng has been at my father , complaining about dirt in the water and the noise of the saws and axes . |
| 4 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 5 | ‘ Well — if he hated the massacre , he should not have been at the battle . ’ |
| 6 | He tried to visualize its brown wooden bottom — he could not — there must still have been at least one sheet there . |
| 7 | Monica 's number one ranking would have been at stake at Wimbledon . |
| 8 | Not since Alexandra Palace in North London has the Great British Beer Festival been at a site with so much style and heritage . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , and the reason we 've got no morals is that for a long time ( 150 years ) we 've been at a loose end . ' |
| 10 | Ever since the first distant sounds of music and odd snatches of alien speech began interrupting the 1920s ' world of Morse , better ( and louder ) reproduction of audio has been at the forefront of development priorities for engineers . |
| 11 | Henry Newbolt was at this time Hewlett 's neighbour in Wiltshire , and it seems to have been at this Christmas time that Hewlett took Pound to see Newbolt , who figures elsewhere in Canto 80 : |
| 12 | Delegates are still addressed as brother , sister , or comrade , but this year there are electronic signs in the hall giving the speaker 's name — as there have been at the Conservative conference for quite a while . |
| 13 | John Cleese and Eric Idle who had both been at Cambridge with him had had no idea . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Following Britain 's recent dispute with China over the stationing of People 's Liberation Army troops in Hong Kong after 1997 , Whitehall has been at pains to keep its distance from the immigration row . |
| 17 | For almost 18 months Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson have been at loggerheads over sterling . |
| 18 | After speaking at the conference , Mr Parkinson told journalists : ‘ It ( BR privatisation ) has never been at the top of my agenda . |
| 19 | Mr Parkinson told journalists later : ‘ It has never been at the top of my agenda . |
| 20 | White has been at the arboretum for 14 years and observes that the best autumn colour often comes after the worst summers . |
| 21 | The waiter says this man used to live here until 15 years ago , and the bright boats bobbing on the undulating water of the main harbour would have been at his front door . |
| 22 | He 's been at glue-sniffing , underage drinking . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For example , I have been at a venue like the Marquee club to check out a band for a record company and have also watched 30 minutes of the first act . |
| 25 | But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig . |
| 26 | Britain has proved to be one of the least ‘ community-minded ’ members of the EEC and has for long been at odds with other states about the level of British contributions to the EEC budget . |
| 27 | She praises the risk takers , wealth creators , people who are frequently from modest backgrounds and who may not even have been at a university . |
| 28 | However , Honderich himself throws up difficulties with regard to his third point , in that Conservatism must have been at least partly responsible for the ‘ decent ’ society he found when he arrived in Britain thirty years ago . |
| 29 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 30 | She could have been at home , warm and snug . |