Example sentences of "[verb] had been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 140 people listed had been detained in a wave of arrests in Nouakchott and Nouadhibou beginning in November 1990 . |
| 2 | For a few seconds Folly 's vivid imagination conjured up a fantasy in which the girl she had rescued had been named by a father desperate for a son … |
| 3 | Britain was a different world , groggy and cynical after years during which the government was betrayed by a left-dominated trade union movement which it mistakenly believed had been tamed under a ‘ social contract ’ . |
| 4 | Invariably the cases studied had been referred for a variety of concerns and worries about the children but there was no unequivocal evidence that the children were abused according to any definition . |
| 5 | During the trial Mr O'Donnell told how he had agreed to go with McPherson , who had driven him to a lay-by at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83 road , where men he recognised had been waiting in a van . |
| 6 | Particularly unimpressed was Nell McCafferty who thought it a bad choice as an opening movie which she assumed had been selected as a ‘ keynote ’ film for the festival . |
| 7 | Outside the cottage door was a huge , ominous-looking shell which we were told had been fired from a battleship during World War I ; and John pointed out to us exactly where the Royal Oak had been torpedoed in 1939 . |
| 8 | If a shorter interval , say two or three years , during which no birth occurred had been chosen as a criterium for determining behavioural infecundity , the proportion infecund , of course , would be much higher . |
| 9 | Virgin , he claimed had been precipitated into a compromise with Sting largely because their key witness was unreliable . |
| 10 | ( Pound had studied some of the same French poets , notably Laforgue and Rimbaud , but he had profited by them in a quite different way from Eliot , and he was averse to the central thrust of the symboliste endeavour , to which indeed the imagist or imagiste movement which he had sponsored had been intended as a challenging alternative . ) |
| 11 | Taking into account the annual exemption , indexation and rebasing , the shareholders ought to be in a better tax position than if the amounts distributed had been classified as a company distribution . |
| 12 | A law enforcement source , speaking on condition of anonymity , said the person arrested had been linked to a rental van that investigators believed played a role in the bombing . |
| 13 | Roy , the gunman from Rhodesia , had a suede jacket with tassels on the back and sleeves , and a pair of boots which he swore had been taken from a dead terrorist . |
| 14 | A FATHER yesterday held the hand of the daughter he thought had been killed in a plane crash . |
| 15 | A HEROIC six-year-old was reunited yesterday with the friend he thought had been killed by a hit-and-run driver . |
| 16 | Inevitably the confusion that followed tested even the most loyal barbarians , who could suddenly discover that the emperor they supported had been overthrown by a palace coup , and that there was a hostile ruler in his place . |
| 17 | First the old Morris I liked had been exchanged for a Jowett Javelin . |
| 18 | The Baghdad hosting had been arranged following a successful diplomatic campaign by President Saddam at the previous summit at Havana . |
| 19 | An important part in the arrangements for the security to be given had been played by a Mr. Bruce , a solicitor acting for the bank who had also , at one time , acted for the husband . |