Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [been] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Les Dawson was a guest on the show , we discovered that he and Ken had been at school together , and Les could not resist reminding him of those happy days : ‘ The school we went to was so poor , if you put your hand up they thought it was a hold up . |
| 2 | He seemed to be suggesting that once Balbinder had been at Cedars for a while , he might be capable of re-entering mainstream education at middle school transfer . |
| 3 | Ella silenced her arguments in one fell swoop by producing the money she had been saving from her grant all the months Eva had been at university . |
| 4 | Tracey Cole had been at Oxford University for just eight days when her body was found in her study bedroom at Oxford University . |
| 5 | His father wrote a regular monthly letter and , after Frank had been at Rowden for two years , one of the letters told him that his grandmother Blanche Arbuthnot had died , and left him all her money and her house in Meath . |
| 6 | The MQM and the PPP had been at loggerheads since October 1989 , when the MQM ended its 11-month old alliance with the PPP and joined the Combined Opposition Parties [ see p. 37043 ] . |
| 7 | If Liam Brady had been at Windsor Park yesterday he would n't have hesitated to reach for his cheque-book . |
| 8 | Prior Robert might not have been very greatly grieved if Tutilo had been made to pay for his outrageous offence with his skin , but Prior Robert had been at dinner with the abbot and several other witnesses that night , and in any case could hardly be imagined as lurking in wet woods to strike down the delinquent with his own elegant hands . |
| 9 | But how much work was done , how much , if any , ore was obtained and how long the Quakers or Patrickson had been at work we may never discover . |
| 10 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 11 | Dulé had been at sea all day beyond the outer reef , fishing for rose conches and the sweet eggwhite-smooth lambie inside ; he returned to his paddle and plied it swiftly , making the crossing under the stars . |
| 12 | Mr Malik had been at pains to exclude what he continued to call ‘ the loonies ’ — that is to say , anyone whose attitude to the practice of his faith was , in the headmaster 's opinion , excessively enthusiastic . |
| 13 | The marshal 's reception of the news was predictably sour , but he refrained from any overt suggestion that Thiercelin had been at fault , possibly because he accepted some share of the blame himself . |
| 14 | Kendall had been at King 's Cross . |
| 15 | Since Bartocci had been at pains to emphasize that his comments were ‘ off the record ’ , Zen could of course simply ignore them . |
| 16 | Elie had been at Tiger Haven before they both arrived and that apparently confirmed the pecking order . |
| 17 | Tehran , Baghdad — Andropulos again playing both sides of the fence , Iran and Iraq had been at war for six years now — Tripoli , Damascus , Beirut , Athens , Rome , East Berlin , New York and London . |
| 18 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
| 19 | They were all built around the 1720s and all have bold keystones and this dramatic and sometimes swooping raised centre : as though a countrified Vanbrugh or Thomas Archer had been at work . |
| 20 | Leith had been at G Vasey Ltd for two months when Sebastian , with his usual exuberance , came home from his travel agent 's job and told her that he was flying off to India on Friday for a holiday . |
| 21 | Dr. Crocker and Wexford had been at school together . |
| 22 | He had come here on a misunderstanding ; believing that Wavebreaker had been at Murder Cay when in fact we had not even been within sight of that mysterious island . |
| 23 | Rachel had been at OBEX for two years and was now senior sister in charge of the busy factory medical centre . |
| 24 | Or rather , as Rachel had been at pains to point out , a misunderstanding of Lamark 's theory of learned characteristics being inherited . |
| 25 | John had been at Suzanne 's hospital bedside since early last Monday when she was found naked with 80 per cent burns in Stockport , Greater Manchester . |
| 26 | With Paul Foot , Booker and Ingrams had been at Shrewsbury in the early 1950s . |