Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 2 | Carrie suddenly said , ‘ Your mum and I were worried about you , Seb , but all my dad could keep saying was , ‘ It 's a good job I managed to reach you when I did , or you 'd have been up at that farmhouse for another week . ’ ’ |
| 3 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 4 | Well done you and a very , very special thanks to the Princess Royal , without whose leadership it would not have been possibly at all . |
| 5 | I gather there was a defender on the goal line so Strachan could n't have been offside at all . |
| 6 | Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all . |
| 7 | At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . |
| 8 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 9 | But you had to remember the circumstances they were there under — they should never have been there at all . |
| 10 | He 's supposed to have been there at half past nine ! |
| 11 | ‘ Back home in Australia , you can play for my university there , Queensland , for ever , so long as you 've been there at some time . |
| 12 | I bet nobody 's been there at all . |