Example sentences of "at [adj] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether anything at all had been salvaged out of the wreck of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was still questionable . |
| 2 | Nothing at all had been taken . |
| 3 | The teds of the fifties had been replaced by the mods , who at first had been a very exclusive , almost secret , underground working class movement . |
| 4 | They had gone away together , she and Paul , to Papa 's fury ; and at first had been wildly happy . |
| 5 | And the smell , which at first had been tentative , elusive , no more than an alien tincture on the air , now seemed to seep into the passage with the strong effluvium of death . |
| 6 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 7 | Something at last had been accomplished . |