Example sentences of "[noun] had been [vb pp] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was on her own : Dr Neil had been called out some time ago to attend a woman in childbirth , and Matey had gone to visit an old friend in St John 's Wood , and she was the sole mistress of the doctor 's house in Vetch Street . |
| 2 | Yavlinsky refused Gorbachev 's invitation to the G-7 summit because , he claimed , his programme had been weakened too much to make it viable . |
| 3 | A police officer told the coroner he 'd found youths on the site at least six times since the fence had been erected earlier this year . |
| 4 | The aircraft had been flown already that day , before refuelling for Herr Hess 's trip , and the motor was still warm . |
| 5 | Her make-up had been applied thickly that morning but with great dexterity . |
| 6 | The main level which ran along the southern branch of the vein had been brought in some 210 fathoms from the entrance . |
| 7 | The plan had been drafted earlier that month by a four-member ministerial committee [ see p. 38120 ] . |
| 8 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 9 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 10 | Only very slowly did intellectuals concede that the movies had been shaped as much by politics as by the showmen . |
| 11 | The only truly representative delegation was that of the United States whose five delegates had been chosen earlier that year at a convention in Cincinnati . |
| 12 | Maureen had been comforted as much by Joe 's loving concern for her as by his words . |
| 13 | Staff had been told earlier this year to take a 10% pay cut to try to save jobs . |
| 14 | But these people had been shot down some months ago and as the Feldwebel had told me that this was only a transit camp I knew that I was not likely to meet them here . |
| 15 | I think if debate had been continued then many backbench Tory MPs would have expressed their reservations and their concerns about the Government 's proposals . |
| 16 | The one o'clock news included a brief statement that a man had been detained early that morning while attempting to board a cross-Channel ferry at Dover and was helping police with their enquiries into the murder of Angelica Caroli , found stabbed in her Gloucestershire home the previous Thursday . |
| 17 | But new safety procedures had been introduced so such an event could never happen again . |
| 18 | A prestigious teaching post at Winchester had been terminated abruptly some years before , and Hugo had failed to hold another since . |
| 19 | Their only concern was that , in the darkness , one , or more , of the ropes had been loosened too much and it would be noticed when they emerged from the back of the van . |
| 20 | Reports say material has been seized by police , but Detective Superintendent Mike Hames , head of the squad , said no decision had been taken on any police action . |
| 21 | Perhaps Dorothy had been shielded too much , and again in her marriage she had been protected , so that there had been nothing in her life to prepare her for what was happening now . |
| 22 | But on the North American mainland , colonies had been affected very little by the earlier wars among European countries ; except for the brief clash that had led to the Dutch loss of New Amsterdam the colonies had fought only with ill-armed Indians and had won their little wars without help from England . |