Example sentences of "been at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should think he is tired , he 's been running around this field , he 's been at deep square leg , at third man and everywhere and he just gave me that blank stare . |
| 2 | Generally , it seems the response of social services has been at individual crisis level , rather than reaching out to travellers . |
| 3 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 4 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 5 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 6 | How successful have I been at various jobs ? |
| 7 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 8 | The Reverend Peter Brown , Convener of the Social Matters Committee for the Orkney Presbytery , began to investigate the actions of the Evangelical Charismatic Movement in Orkney , and whether any members of the Orkney Christian Fellowship had been at that seminar . |
| 9 | I 'm very glad to have been at that rally in Sheffield , because it was a historic moment . |
| 10 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 11 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 12 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 13 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 14 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 15 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 16 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
| 17 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 18 | Have you been at that gym tonight ? |
| 19 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 20 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |
| 21 | It is said to have been at one time the world 's largest spinning mill under one roof . |
| 22 | Before the jury was sworn the judge was asked to hear evidence from two of the prosecution witnesses on the existence and whereabouts of evidence believed to have been at one time in existence and of relevance to the case and possible use to the Defence . |
| 23 | It had been at one time , going back over a hundred and fifty years , it had been what they called a combination poorhouse . |
| 24 | There are currently 17 expeditions on Everest — the most there has ever been at one time . |
| 25 | Well it would have been at one time . |
| 26 | The sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal presumably incorporates a discount to reflect the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , but there is no indication of the extent of the discount : the case is therefore of limited value as an indication of what the proper sentence would have been at first instance . |
| 27 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 28 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 29 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 30 | It is certainly not true of Arab public opinion which has long ago accepted the ‘ linkage ’ that Washington has been at such pains to discount . |