Example sentences of "he [vb past] [been] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After he 'd been at Mandru for a while , Lucien learned that Mandru had refused to have any more boys from Por Tanssie after his last purchase from that academy had committed suicide . |
| 2 | He 'd been at school with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen . |
| 3 | He said he 'd been at Parkhead recently ( his son is in the reserves ) and Billy Bremner had been there . |
| 4 | Did he tell you that he 'd been at flat I mean years before or near the date of this or what ? |
| 5 | The majority of the day he had been at Ascot Races . |
| 6 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |
| 7 | ‘ A couple of hours earlier he had been at home watching television , eating his tea , just our Danny as he always was — a 14-year-old boy full of life , energy and cheek . ’ |
| 8 | Livingstone said he had been at home at the time of the trouble while Hardy said he watched the disturbance , although he did not throw anything . |
| 9 | His mother Diane and girlfriend Donna Williams said he had been at home with them . |
| 10 | She added that he had later asked her to tell detectives that he had been at home all Saturday night . |
| 11 | Phil Lowe was as dangerous here as he had been at Wembley . |
| 12 | He had been at sea on the Chilean coast most of his life , running cargoes between the isolated ports of the southern waterways , a marvellous-looking old man , big gnarled hands warped with rheumatism and a long wrinkled face , little lines running out from his eyes , which were slitted as though he were permanently peering out into fog . |
| 13 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 14 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 15 | He had been at school almost six months , the most miserable time of his entire life . |
| 16 | He admitted modestly that it was a long time since he had been at school , but one phrase he had understood was ‘ Vive la link box ! ’ . |
| 17 | He had been at School for over 21 years , teaching general subjects . |
| 18 | But Dyson 's opinion of him , which had risen noticeably on hearing that he had been at King 's , had fallen back to zero again ; his having been at King 's was cancelled out by his having been right about his instructions to join Dyson 's department . |
| 19 | And once he had been at Oxford , she said . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | There had only ever been one with whom he had been at ease . |
| 22 | No I did visit Lawrence in prison after he was recaptured er and spoke to him about various things , including this er this incident and he did confirm that he had been at flat er for a couple of days er befo before the actual search . |
| 23 | He had been at Cambridge just after the last war , had fought with the International Brigade in Spain and had joined the R.A.F. as an air-gunner in 194O . |
| 24 | He had been at Cambridge , where he got his Blue for rowing . |
| 25 | He could not afford to make mistakes ; all his life he had been at pains to learn and understand how ordinary people live and had delved into the seamier side of human nature , but he was still very unworldly . |
| 26 | She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education . |
| 27 | 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 . |