Example sentences of "[noun] had been [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three centuries of decline , the first steps had been taken on the path to restoration . |
| 2 | As the south coast had been raided only a few years earlier , this action is understandable , and it also indicates a measure of political awareness among the peasant class . |
| 3 | The car had been chased up the M1 as far as Newport Pagnall by two Bedfordshire police patrol cars . |
| 4 | A plaque had been hung on the gates : ‘ Fierce Dog — Beware ’ . |
| 5 | If those shells had been preserved then the sand and shingle in which they lay could not have been eroded by the sun and wind . |
| 6 | Molly had been laying out the lunch on the terrace . |
| 7 | Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier . |
| 8 | The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came . |
| 9 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 10 | The US authorities claimed that the decision to evacuate Peace Corps workers had been taken on the basis of general intelligence concerning NPA intentions , and that Swanson 's abduction had only become known after the decision had been made . |
| 11 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 12 | While we talked Miss Sowerby had been cleaning up the patient with the head wound and , as the man prepared to leave , Reid cried to him , ‘ Head feel'um better ? ’ |
| 13 | Oyston had been brought up the son of a Durham miner and had moved to Blackpool with his parents when they went to open a boarding house . |
| 14 | The linoleum tiles in the middle area of the floor were rimmed by some new type of carpet , there was a false ceiling and false blinds had been hung on the walls . |
| 15 | According to a statement received by the weekly Oiga , Salinas accepted responsibility for the coup attempt and declared that its aim had been to hand over the presidency to Máximo San Román Cáceres , Fujimori 's dismissed First Vice-President named " constitutional president " by the dissolved Congress [ see p. 38846 ] . |
| 16 | The younger John claimed that Langton had been carrying on an adulterous relationship with his stepmother Joan . |
| 17 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 18 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |
| 19 | The Daughters of the American Revolution had been racking up a heavy rep in the past few months . |
| 20 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 21 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 22 | Tosspot had been found dead the previous afternoon . |
| 23 | As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave . |
| 24 | Parore had been heading down the leg side — too far , ex-Central Districts keeper Jack Vernon assured me later — and had to change direction . |
| 25 | She said how the old people 's sitting room had been livened up when a few pictures of old Barnsley had been hung on the walls . |
| 26 | In an interview with the Guardian when his dummy had been published almost a year previously , he had specifically said the paper ‘ would not pay £40,000 wages ’ . |
| 27 | The company policy had been to speed up the line and the rate of production . |
| 28 | The Life of Johnson makes plain how Boswell had been staking out the ground since their early acquaintance , making notes immediately after each meeting of what he himself was eventually to ‘ consider the peculiar value ’ of the Life , ‘ that is , the quantity it contains of Johnson 's conversation ’ . |
| 29 | Mr Goldring told the jury on the second day of the trial , which is expected to last for three months , that Bradley had been put on an intravenous drip but in the early hours of the next morning he shouted out , complaining of pain around the drip site . |
| 30 | Even now , however , no decisions had been taken on the speed of emancipation or the form it should take . |