Example sentences of "been at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'm very glad to have been at that rally in Sheffield , because it was a historic moment . |
| 3 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 4 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 5 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 6 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 7 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Have you been at that gym tonight ? |
| 12 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 13 | When she walked into the kitchen her mother looked up and said , ‘ Where on earth have you been at this hour . |
| 14 | Joanne works at a grammar school and almost all her teaching experience has been at this school . |
| 15 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 16 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 17 | Henry Newbolt was at this time Hewlett 's neighbour in Wiltshire , and it seems to have been at this Christmas time that Hewlett took Pound to see Newbolt , who figures elsewhere in Canto 80 : |
| 18 | It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him . |
| 19 | I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be . |
| 20 | It may well have been at this moment , in the autumn of 1419 , that Henry V decided that the crown of France , which none of his predecessors had achieved , might be his . |
| 21 | Waqar about to return to the battle , Gower outwardly calm , than whom no Englishman would have preferred another to have been at this place at this hour . |
| 22 | Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards . |
| 23 | It was an insignificant point in its way , for Harry knew from Marjorie Mallender that Clare had met Minter whilst at Oxford — he must simply have been at another college — yet somehow his faith in his own reasoning was undermined . |
| 24 | The range of decorative techniques which have been at some time applied to metalwork is a subject for many books , not just a few pages . |
| 25 | It appears to establish three categories : the first contains wordings generally agreed to be acceptable , the second wordings which appear to have been at some time problematic but are now acceptable , and the third wordings which remain inadmissible . |
| 26 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
| 27 | This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not sure that we have n't been at some point , ’ says Mr Garner . |
| 29 | Because of the repayments that were made of borrowing during that period , in the midst of a recession we are now in a better position to borrow prudently — than we have been at any stage in the past : to borrow prudently and to maintain our commitment to a balanced budget in the medium term . |
| 30 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |