Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 2 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 3 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |
| 4 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 5 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 6 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 7 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 8 | He spoke to the officer on desk duty who said that a complaint against Russell had been made at another station . |
| 9 | Whether the production work sharing is something that is still to be decided er at the start of that phase but on the equipment , we were er originally entitled to thirty three percent of the common equipment er when we last gave evidence to the committee the U K work share for equipment stood at some thirty six percent of those that had been selected at that time . |
| 10 | At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow . |
| 11 | The different perspectives of EP and parents were reflected in the confusion over what had been decided at that meeting . |
| 12 | Mr Campbell said that during the first incident , when Mr Friel and the two younger accused had been shouting at each other in the shopping centre , the lawyer had struck the 15-year-old on the face with the dog leash . |
| 13 | He had a face that was both sensuous and battered — his nose had been broken at some time — with deep pouches under his dark eyes . |
| 14 | One of Shaughnessy 's sources , with close links to Israeli intelligence , actually claimed to have heard the tapes of these telephone intercepts , and another , well-connected with the US intelligence community , confirmed not only that the Iranian Embassy 's calls had been monitored at that time but also the substance of the Lovejoy — Niknam conversations . |
| 15 | No father ( of a case or control ) had accumulated a recorded dose of more than 5 mSv before his child was conceived , and no father had been monitored at any time in the four years before his child was conceived . |
| 16 | As this was higher than the average rate over such a period that had been experienced at any historical time , something had to be done . |
| 17 | The fact that local people had not been informed of the exploratory work as it proceeded , or asked what they thought , had been discussed at some length during the evening , and there seemed to be little doubt that people who are to be " invaded " by a major installation for which they will bear much incidental , site-specific cost , would like to be party to discussions about the project . |
| 18 | Although one government-inspired commentator tried later to dismiss the FBI teletype as ‘ an early memo … that sketched one possible scenario , as of October 1989 ’ , and which subsequent events had rendered ‘ irrelevant ’ and ‘ pointless ’ , it was less easy to reject the categorical denials by Air Malta , the airport staff at Luqa , the Maltese police and the Maltese government that any unaccompanied bag had been sent to Frankfurt on 21 December 1988 , or , indeed , that any Maltese connection with the Lockerbie bombing had been established at all , other than that the clothing in the suitcase bomb had apparently originated on the island . |
| 19 | It assumed that models of rehabilitation valuing people through work , which had been established at such hospitals at Netherne , could be applied for an indefinite period with all patients being potential benefactors . |
| 20 | The same scheme had been tried at another camp with four ladders . |
| 21 | It was reported that loads of rubbish , mostly by the firm ‘ plant ’ had been dumped at this location . |
| 22 | George nodded and said the whole train had been rewatered at that point . |
| 23 | He had a good look at it and said part of the pedestal had been mended at some time which took away a lot of the value . |
| 24 | Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 . |
| 25 | Our problem had been landing at all . |
| 26 | She had been propositioned at that last party by a sub-editor with bad breath , who seeing her maimed and brought down had been swift to seize the opportunity . |
| 27 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |
| 28 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 29 | The Prime Minister and the Lord Chancellor later in the year protested with apparent truthfulness that they had been quite unaware that it had been passed at all ! . |
| 30 | Many police officers were angry that the cases had been brought at all , since the methods employed by the defendant constables were said to have involved no more than what was set out in the Home Office-approved Tactical Options Manual . |