Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as Moby was too old for puppy classes , he went to the bigger-dog classes , run by Jenny , to reinforce what he 'd been taught at puppy classes and , most importantly , what he 'd learned at home . |
| 2 | I rang her every day , but I had n't seen her during the time I 'd been living at Eva 's ; I could n't face any of them in that house . |
| 3 | Before Kevin Ryan came back from America and bought the Half House from the last improvident Hamilton , nephew of her mother 's first husband who 'd been killed at Tobruk . |
| 4 | The umpires conferred , then , like Tweedledum and Tweedledee in their striped shirts , cantered over to the third man in the stands , who 'd been gazing at Mrs Sherwood at the time and missed the incident altogether , and who now waved his down-turned palms back and forth to indicate no foul . |
| 5 | They were there only because they 'd been stopped at gunpoint from going any farther — by the Turkish army , a key NATO ally of the US and Britain . |
| 6 | That was pretty stupid , because not only was he on the list of residents , but he 'd been seen at mealtimes by several of the other members . |
| 7 | The trousers he was holding were the ones he 'd been wearing at Streatley the previous weekend . |
| 8 | A gallant Irishman who 'd been wounded at Dunkirk and invalided out . ’ |
| 9 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
| 10 | Which Labour MP lost a libel action against the Observer partly because he 'd been educated at Berkhamsted School ? |
| 11 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 12 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 13 | No , I was looking forward to the Open because I 'd been stationed at Formby for my army service and I was anticipating meeting all my old friends from that time . |
| 14 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 15 | I was very interested in their answers to my questions , which often seemed to offer a different view of history from the one I had been taught at school . |
| 16 | Hair Type : Short , grown out style which had been coloured at home . |
| 17 | The British Plate Glass Manufactory had been erected at Ravenhead , near the village , in 1773 , and other glassworks followed . |
| 18 | From the document we learn that not only were pumps installed to drain the mines but a water-powered battery of stamps had been erected at Tilberthwaite . |
| 19 | She had been rededicated at St Luke 's a year previous to that . |
| 20 | Of this Miller writes , ‘ It grows naturally in the West Indies , whence the late Mr. Robert Miller sent me the seeds ’ , and it would seem likely that Ehret 's specimen had been raised at Chelsea . |
| 21 | The editor of the True Brit , who had been raised at Kelvin Mackenzie 's knee , was the possessor of a mercurial temperament . |
| 22 | Within a month a master for the Lower School ( Mr. C. F. Howell ) had been appointed at £130 a year , and within four months the number of permitted boarders was increased from six to eight . |
| 23 | Towards the end of 1965 special high-security accommodation had been built at Durham , Leicester and Parkhurst , prisons . |
| 24 | It was all a smokescreen to make them believe that the Clarion Call had been lost at sea . |
| 25 | Her father , a sailor from Shetland , had been lost at sea , and her mother had to bring her two young children up in desperate poverty until they went to the orphanage . |
| 26 | There was Davy Treffry and little Nick Polwhele who was only thirteen ; and Tom Rowe , whose father had been lost at sea three months before . |
| 27 | That poetry had been written at Lausanne more than twenty years before , in a world which was now disappearing . |
| 28 | It was the third time in three weeks that such ugly scenes had been witnessed at London grounds . |
| 29 | When Tom told his grandmother he was moving out of her house and confessed — because since the accident he had also stopped lying , could not be bothered with prevarication — that he had been busking at stations , she told him she was horrified , she was disappointed in him . |
| 30 | In Emmerson ( reported at [ 1991 ] Crim.L.R. 194 with Commentary ) the tape had been played at trial , and the question was whether the jury were entitled to be provided with a copy of it after retiring , so that they could hear again the all-important tone of voice of the officer conducting one of the interviews . |