Example sentences of "[noun] had been [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Daughters of the American Revolution had been racking up a heavy rep in the past few months . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Till now , Ken Livingstone had been putting up a good show , joking about John Smith serving as his deputy and arguing for defence cuts to pay for benefits rather than tax increases . |
| 6 | The covers of the bed had been drawn back a little , the action of an hotel , to show the dean pillowcases and the white sheet . |
| 7 | Voting had been suspended only a few hours after polling began , because of " premeditated acts of sabotage " , according to Ismaila Nimaga , Minister of Public Security and Territorial Administration . |
| 8 | Frances had been walking along a pavement in Oxford when she was hit from behind . |
| 9 | Professor Briggs had been investigating how a ‘ natural ’ language might be used in computer processing . |
| 10 | Smith first came across the Academy 's prize problem ( Box B ) when browsing through their Comptes Rendus in February 1882 , though the problem had been posed almost a year earlier . |
| 11 | The first raider had been downed only a short while earlier by Archie McKellar , who saw the attacker crash into the Lothians . |
| 12 | And an RUC Special Branch officer had been beaten up a few weeks previously after going to meet his UFF informer in Belfast 's York Road district . |
| 13 | Panic set in — a teenage boy who had appeared in a film for US TV had been murdered just a couple of months before . |
| 14 | Coffee had been brought in a huge white porcelain pot and matching white cups arranged around the white-painted table that stood at the edge of a huge paved terrace overlooking the endless sparkling blue sea . |
| 15 | Thomas had been granted only a weekend pass . |
| 16 | During the time that Ted and Jim were working on the engine , our chief researcher Bill Welbourne had been finding out a few details about the aircraft . |
| 17 | My mother had been married only a few months , and had never previously been further abroad than Italy . |
| 18 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |