Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] had been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Edward Morris had been set free , he had recommended her to some of his friends and so trade was looking up . |
| 2 | Etna has two summit craters , the Main Crater and the North-East Crater ( both lying along the line of a fissure ) , and the North-East Crater had been showing mild Strombolian activity for many years prior to the 1971 eruption . |
| 3 | Mrs Cath Thompson and Mrs Judy Robinson had been told senior officials from Grand Met , which owns 28 pubs in the Darlington area , would travel to the town to hear publicans ' grievances . |
| 4 | She told me a policewoman had been round and announced that Graham Mills had been found murdered . |
| 5 | Although Mr Braley had been made aware of the need for absolute secrecy , he had put the SFO 's investigation at risk . |
| 6 | She had not been surprised to learn that the accountant Morris had been proved innocent of any crime and had pointed the finger at Spencer Grenfell . |
| 7 | On 14 October 1991 Mr. Butler had been found guilty of contempt of court by breaching the injunction granted on 12 September 1991 and was sentenced to four weeks in prison , the sentence being suspended for six months . |
| 8 | Mr Major had been taking private soundings about such a move before Christmas . |
| 9 | The inquest heard there were no footpaths and Mr Hughes had been wearing dark clothing . |
| 10 | The next morning , after Sir Thomas had been discovered dead , Brampton 's corpse was found swinging from a beam up in the garret . |
| 11 | The Magistrate , for example , when told that Mrs Wright had been taken ill , showed no interest whatsoever , and when further informed , a little later , that she had given birth , observed dryly : " I 'm surprised that she had the energy . " |
| 12 | In October Bao had been hospitalized due to heart disease . |
| 13 | For three or four years now , Mrs Mandelbaum had been giving free English classes in her home . |
| 14 | Edwin Garland had been found dead by his niece at two o'clock on the Saturday . |
| 15 | In late August González had been granted extraordinary powers which gave him total control over central government , federal agency and state company finances and the administration of enterprises operating under the Public Works and Defence ministries . |
| 16 | In response to appeals by AI members last year , the Israeli authorities replied in April 1991 saying that ‘ Abd al-Ra'uf Ghabin had been arrested due to his activities relating to his alleged involvement in the PFLP — printing and distributing PFLP leaflets . |
| 17 | The kindness of Cinzia Miletti 's heart was a quality Zen had considerable difficulty in imagining where Ivy Cook was concerned , but he found it easy enough to believe that in her husband 's absence Cinzia had been feeling bored and had welcomed any excuse for going into Perugia . |
| 18 | Even the small river Slea had been made navigable for light craft and Sleaford had benefited from ‘ a cheap and easy transit for corn , coal , timber , stone , lime and other merchandise , to and from Boston , Lincoln and other places ’ . |
| 19 | By the end of 1989 El Salvador had been declared ineligible for World Bank lending , having accumulated arrears of $6,500,000 on loans of $110,000,000 from this body . |
| 20 | Captain Astorre had been paying small attention . |
| 21 | Di Leonardo 's personal secretary had issued a statement shortly after midday , a masterpiece of prolixity that took about five minutes to say that Ruggiero Miletti had been found dead and that another statement would be issued in due course . |
| 22 | Item — Lady Eleanor had been seen alive just before the service began by Dame Martha and Dame Elizabeth . |
| 23 | A statement by the Nigerian presidency on May 17 said that Siyad Barre had been given temporary asylum since no other African state had offered to accept him . |
| 24 | It subsequently emerged that Lady Essex had been administering debilitating potions to her husband and was implicated in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury , who knew too much about this . |
| 25 | Micky Banks had been shot dead on stage . |
| 26 | The two were now inside the grille together and Mena Iskander had been given strict instructions to try to secure Miss Postlethwaite a seat from which she could see Zoser clearly and if possible his wife as well . |