Example sentences of "they [verb] been at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the middle of an argument they 'd been at home . |
| 2 | They 've been at loggerheads with the Government over a ten million pound capping row . |
| 3 | But that still boils down to the fact that everybody thinks they know how schools work cos they 've been at school themselves . |
| 4 | They 've been at war with us for three years , you see . ’ |
| 5 | They achieved this by combining two different methods : a longitudinal study , following the same children for four years from before they were able in read until they had been at school for two or three years ; and a training programme that looked at the effect of giving pre-school children specific training in categorising sounds . |
| 6 | Although Clare had decided to call in Meg , she did n't ; at first because in the morning things were n't so pressing as they had been at night , and then because she was too busy at the Refuge , and then because it really did n't seem fair . |
| 7 | If they had been at liberty to quit the vessel at Cronstadt , the case would have been quite different ; or if the captain had capriciously discharged the two men who were wanting , the others might not have been compellable to take the whole duty upon themselves , and their agreeing to do so might have been a sufficient consideration for the promise of an advance of wages . |
| 8 | She could not help but pause in her misery to be proud of the fact that , without her supervision , they had been at work in the garden . |
| 9 | They had been at supper on that far-distant evening when Mr Curdle , white with panic , had drummed madly on the glass of the hall door . |
| 10 | Contamination of blood and its products for medical use has been virtually eliminated by the testing of blood for antibodies to HIV , by heating blood products to kill HIV and by voluntary withdrawal from blood donation by people who know , or think , they have been at risk of HIV infection . |
| 11 | As they have been at Wimpey Homes ’ first development of Superspec houses at West Moor in Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 12 | They have been at Donnington since Claude Arkell 's ( the present owner 's ) ancestor , Thomas , began producing his distinctive beers in the old mill in 1865 . |
| 13 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |