Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [pron] at [det] " in BNC.

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1 It was now thrashing feebly about in the straw trying to get its tangle of legs in order , a whole , complete , new horse — when five minutes ago there had been nothing at all save him thinking Firelight had indigestion .
2 There had been nothing at all before .
3 Her imagined crime was something she could not tell her beloved and admired brother , and without that there had been nobody at all .
4 If there had been anything at all in Village still , it would have been different .
5 However Scotland 's largest education authority , Strathclyde Regional Council , was able to say yesterday that there had been none at all in its area since the establishment of the council in the mid-Seventies .
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