Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [prep] a single " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their trial had been completed in a single morning session before a military tribunal inside Insein Prison , an overcrowded place notorious for torture . |
| 2 | The sofa , pinned to the wall , had been killed with a single shot . |
| 3 | The other two had been trying to rescue him when all three had been killed by a single well-placed mortar bomb . |
| 4 | Gail Spiro 41 , and children Sara , 16 , Adam , 14 , and Deana , 11 , had been shot by a single bullet to the head as they slept . |
| 5 | It was as though the unwanted debris from a dozen mansions had been dumped in a single , overcrowded space . |
| 6 | It certainly did not mean that the two movements had been fused into a single whole . |
| 7 | The legislation had been approved at a single sitting of the NLA on April 15 . |