Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] at [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig . |
| 2 | Captain 'd been at Combe Court for ages and ages I think , cos he knew everyone , even the very poorly ones like Glenda . |
| 3 | Their anticipation had been at fever pitch for days . |
| 4 | When she had been at art college , but that was just kids hunting for trophies , and they had n't meant a toss to her . |
| 5 | The fact that both men had been at Livingstone Manor intrigued him . |
| 6 | The majority of the day he had been at Ascot Races . |
| 7 | The University of California at Santa Barbara first attempted to headhunt Prof Cheetham , who had been at Oxford University for 26 years , in 1989 . |
| 8 | Tracey Cole had been at Oxford University for just eight days when her body was found in her study bedroom at Oxford University . |
| 9 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 10 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 11 | Er , we had been at legislation inspection of becoming an , a costly service in terms of gross expenditure , and therefore we need to look for savings from those areas where we actually spend money , erm , and the belief was , the policy thought was that as our own homes were subject to our own direct management , to inspection by members , to both internal and external audits , erm , they were therefore better inspected than the independent sector , certainly more widely inspected , and therefore the least risk , in terms of any reduction on registration inspection would apply in that area . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Another fifty-four who had been at state schools were also Oxbridge graduates . |
| 14 | If Liam Brady had been at Windsor Park yesterday he would n't have hesitated to reach for his cheque-book . |
| 15 | David Livingstone , father of Andrew and of the same address , said his son had been at home weight training when he was supposed to be out throwing stones . |
| 16 | ‘ If we had been at home Rachel might have been spending the day with us instead . ’ |
| 17 | Elie had been at Tiger Haven before they both arrived and that apparently confirmed the pecking order . |
| 18 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Until the sixties the headquarters of the Legion had been at Side Bel Abbe s in Algeria , the country which for 150 years had been the Legion 's home . |
| 21 | When my cousin , who was to be in the locality ( one did not ask why at that time , and it was only after we were both freed of our vows of secrecy more than thirty years later that he told me he had been at Bletchley Park itself ) suggested coming to visit me , Mrs Sugden had no doubt but that this was my ‘ gentleman friend ’ . |
| 22 | His last sight of her reliquary had been at morning Mass . |
| 23 | I had been at St Andrew 's House barely a week , when a telegram arrived at my parents ' home : |
| 24 | She said it was a routine enquiry and the police were interviewing everybody who had been at Ken O'Mara 's farewell . |