Example sentences of "and had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , many of those in the amalgamated force who had previously worn helmets in their earlier life and had been moved into flat caps in 1969 welcomed the return to ‘ natural ’ apparel and their own version of a correct bodily disposition which had been prescribed in a 1958 edition of the Northumberland County Police Standing Orders . |
| 2 | If I had failed to get a place in a law school and had been forced to take something else as a second choice then this would have been acceptable . |
| 3 | The acting commander-in-chief of the KPNLF , Dien Del , said the fighting had continued overnight and had been ‘ more than 70 per cent successful ’ . |
| 4 | He said he had met the man , whose bona fides he had checked , in a Belfast hotel , and had been told his group held 64 separate documents relating to IRA suspects in the Irish Republic . |
| 5 | The IRA claimed the man , although a Catholic , was a ‘ hit man and intelligence officer ’ for the extreme Protestant Ulster Freedom Fighters and had been involved in a number of gun attacks on nationalists and republicans . |
| 6 | It further alleged that he had been a ‘ fifth columnist ’ working for the Army in west Belfast in the 1970s , and had been given immunity by the RUC to carry a gun and carry out robberies . |
| 7 | Despite the carnage elsewhere , the shares ended the day 36p better at 669p and had been much higher . |
| 8 | ' Another worker , who stood as a Conservative councillor , said she had encountered Mr Lawson at a reception last year and had been asked by the Chancellor why she had lost . |
| 9 | ‘ Many … had a complete ban and had been no-smoking from the start because they perceived that smoking did not fit in with their ethos — Boots , for example , or the Body Shop . ’ |
| 10 | There is still an abyss or several to be crossed , but the bishop was applauded with vast intensity as he told how he had demanded the release of the 150 people reckoned to have been arrested during the street fighting , and had been told that complaints of police brutality would be investigated if the names of the victims were submitted in writing to the authorities . |
| 11 | Colonel Dawson , Officer commanding No. 4 Commando , had become a casualty and had been evacuated to England . |
| 12 | The Labour Party seemed to sense that it had gone too far in criticism of the police , perhaps in response to the far-left , middle-class activists of sociological inclination , and had been too tender towards violent criminals and other deviants . |
| 13 | The beneficiaries thus regard themselves as having received no more than their due , to which they were entitled anyhow , while those whose benefits are discontinued regard themselves as cheated of what they had a right to and had been encouraged to expect . |
| 14 | Yet Clark had known all along of the military preparations ‘ Musketeer I ’ and ‘ Musketeer II ’ and had been dismayed when Dulles seemed to have aborted them with his Suez Canal Users Club ; and after the Anglo-French meeting in London in September he had put out ‘ a dull communiqué , and no one has the least idea of what big things were abroad' . |
| 15 | He was familiar with Pound 's writing on Japanese drama , and had been impressed by the first performance of At the Hawk 's Well when he had seen a well-known Japanese dancer take the role of the hawk . |
| 16 | MacDonald also had condemned the Lloyd George coalition as corrupt and unprincipled and had been a major beneficiary of its fall . |
| 17 | Once , I had inadvertently called Nordic skiing langlauf and had been lucky to escape alive . |
| 18 | She had been having fits of anger , and had been neglecting her children , I was told . |
| 19 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 20 | She was twenty-two years old and had been a nurse at the Princess Louise Clinic in new Cavendish Street . |
| 21 | The 2nd Battalion , Royal Regiment of Fusiliers , was then the infantry battalion in the ACE Mobile Force , and had been in that role since May 1987 . |
| 22 | They had lived in Holland for twenty years and had been much impressed by Dutch conversions of barns into dwellings which tend to be more simple , ‘ scrubbed ’ and ‘ puritanical ’ than the often over-elaborate treatment that is applied to British projects . |
| 23 | He was drinking like a fish , and had been for weeks . |
| 24 | This had been one of the 150 organizations that had written asking for patronage when Diana became engaged , and had been turned down . |
| 25 | The answer was that community service was a political minefield , and had been rejected as unworkable every time it had reared its head . |
| 26 | Charles had been given a view of the plans some months before and had been appalled . |
| 27 | Vincent had put in a request to visit her and had been refused . |
| 28 | He had seen Frank 's mutilated back when they had both been down for screening , and had been deeply shocked . |
| 29 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 30 | He accepted they had thought the flat was empty and had been put under pressure by Allen to start the fire by squirting petrol through the letterbox . |