Example sentences of "had be at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 2 | Nobody was quite sure how many degrees he had started and not finished , not even Boris , but he had been at the place so long he could remember when they used to spell it Freshmen 's Fair . |
| 3 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 4 | In short , Ulster remained more of a violent backwater , removed from the mainstream of British social development , at the end of the 1970s than it had been at the start of that troubled decade . |
| 5 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 6 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 7 | Ari found it was strangely comforting to be told how confused Ewan had been at the time he 'd turned his back on his family . |
| 8 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 9 | After the 1987 election , scarcely more than a tenth ( eleven per cent ) of MPs had been at the school . |
| 10 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 11 | Part of my later training had been at the hands of an ex-SAS instructor whose absolute priority for survival was evading the enemy ; and with doubt but also awareness of danger I guessed at an enemy above our heads , not a saviour . |
| 12 | A retired postman who claimed to have been present at the Battle of Studley Constable was interviewed on television , and I still receive the occasional letter from Germans and Americans claiming that fathers or uncles had been at the ‘ battle ’ . |
| 13 | It was not until 1837 that the beautiful pair of wrought-iron gates , which had been at the entrance to Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , were purchased by the Duke of Devonshire for the main entrance to Chiswick House , created as the alternative to the old main entrance off Lord Burlington 's Lane . |
| 14 | Their innermost secrets had been at the mercy of the West for a year . |
| 15 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 16 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 17 | Only then did it strike me that there was indeed a role that a further staff member could crucially play here ; that it was , in fact , this very shortage that had been at the heart of all my recent troubles . |
| 18 | Banbury in the 1960s was still full of professional and trades people who had been at the school before or immediately after the Second World War . |
| 19 | John was not universally popular with his new colleagues any more than he had been at the Wells ; his ambition aroused suspicion , scorn , envy or fear in some , and his sense of fun ( including a rather observant line in mimicry ) left barbs in some of its victims . |
| 20 | Nine-year-old Joanne had been at the fete helping to give pony rides to help raise funds for the Longeval Animal Sanctuary Trust , which is run by her mother , Cindy . |
| 21 | The story about how he asked the head of current affairs , Liz Forgan , who had been at the Guardian , was equally idiosyncratic . |
| 22 | Cornwall had been at the fore-front of the Spanish wars and indeed , the incident which sparked off the war took place at Fowey and Saltash . |
| 23 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 24 | Hamnett , the Englishman , had been at the opera tonight . |
| 25 | The torrent here was almost as fearsome as it had been at the original crossing point , but not so deep . |
| 26 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 27 | Within 20 years the Prussians had ruined what remained of Danzig 's grain trade and the population of the city had plummeted to what it had been at the end of the fourteenth century . |
| 28 | There were found footprint evidences that young Brown had crossed and recrossed Hunder Beck , that he had been at the top of the high moor , and he was traced half way back , with probably thirty-six sheep which were recovered on Sunday . |
| 29 | If it had been at the border they 'd have given him five or even ten . ’ |
| 30 | The boy told us that his dog had been at the head of the pack from the start , biting the boar 's heels and almost bringing it down . |