Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [been] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implications of that piece of grandiloquence would not have been at all to his taste , as anyone can see from reading a paragraph or two of any of his books . |
| 2 | This failure with this surprising machine would not have been at all like the failures of ordinary deterministic coin machines . |
| 3 | It may well have been at this moment , in the autumn of 1419 , that Henry V decided that the crown of France , which none of his predecessors had achieved , might be his . |
| 4 | It was an insignificant point in its way , for Harry knew from Marjorie Mallender that Clare had met Minter whilst at Oxford — he must simply have been at another college — yet somehow his faith in his own reasoning was undermined . |
| 5 | She would n't have been at all surprised if she were . |
| 6 | ‘ Hello ? ’ she enquired , and would n't have been at all surprised , the way her head was , had it been Reception ringing to say that she had n't filled in her reservation form correctly . |