Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] had [adv] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise , a command enjoining some action which was logically impossible , or which had already been carried out , or a lie that through ignorance on the part of the perpetrator turned out to be objectively true , can both be considered defective through the lack of a canonical trait . |
| 2 | By this time Lewis was off into a fantasy in which a girl Adam had got pregnant had been abandoned by him with their child at Wyvis Hall where she had later been murdered by a sinister caretaker . |
| 3 | He was a free-thinker — one whose thoughts ranged widely over every unorthodox idea , forging connections where none had previously been contemplated . |
| 4 | It was useless to baptize people who had no understanding of the faith , or who had not been persuaded by teaching to espouse Christianity . |
| 5 | Much of the technology used in the Macintosh came via Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Centre where they had also been investigating page printing technology and methods of transferring complex graphics between screens and the printed page . |
| 6 | It was a view , noted the SRU 's chief executive , Bill Hogg , at Murrayfield yesterday , which Ian McGeechan fully endorsed — the Lions ' and Scotland coach contending that where they had not been proved they had not , as yet , been disproved . |
| 7 | There were a few areas of life where he had not been involved — his interests ranged from Stockport Infirmary to the Territorial Army , Stockport Lads ' Club to the Boy Scouts , the Trustee Savings Bank to the NSPCC . |
| 8 | He was sitting , moreover , where he had often been told not to sit . |
| 9 | On occasions , wage pressure exploded in very sharp increases , especially where it had previously been compressed by incomes policies . |
| 10 | I remember once when she was climbing into bed in her Waaf-issue blue striped pyjamas , a cheeky little field mouse popped up from between her sheets where it had evidently been nesting , and streaked across the hut to disappear down a convenient crack in the wooden wall . |
| 11 | On Jan. 16 the Central Commission on the Population and House Census announced the continuation of the census in areas where it had not been completed by Jan. 14 . |
| 12 | It is therefore very unlikely that the court would insist on an expert giving reasons where it had not been agreed beforehand that he would . |
| 13 | In March the Prime Minister Winston Churchill , replying to a letter from the TUC Education Committee , gave an assurance that nothing had yet been settled and reserved some memorable prose for a concluding tribute to the value of liberal studies in adult education : |
| 14 | It was none other than the juvenile that I had just been defending . |
| 15 | Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle . |
| 16 | ‘ Melissa … ’ she hesitated and decided to go ahead ‘ … was just pointing out that I had n't been invited to your birthday party . ’ |
| 17 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 18 | It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city . |
| 19 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 20 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 21 | I could have got annoyed that I had n't been left on my own , but I had to admit that by myself I had only succeeded in getting sucked into my own sub-persona . |
| 22 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |
| 23 | It became apparent very soon that I had not been employed because of my skills as a salesman . |
| 24 | Charlie did not know , at that time that I had also been hit in the chest and that my right lung had been punctured and had collapsed ’ . |
| 25 | The flowers that I had still been clutching when they carried me back to the house had been prised from my fingers and left in a plastic bag on top of the fridge . |
| 26 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
| 27 | Spoiled by the fact that I had always been treated with respect because I was a veterinary surgeon , a member of an honourable profession . |
| 28 | As I walked towards the hut , I saw that someone had certainly been using it . |
| 29 | But peering more closely he could see that someone had recently been writing with a fountain pen . |
| 30 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |