Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] had been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 2 | Then Corporal Auriega , a fat Spaniard who sweated all the time , arrived back from town where he had been drinking all evening with his friends . |
| 3 | Meikle [ 1990 ] Crim.L.R. 801 , where it had been made clear that prosecutors are fully entitled to bring any number of offences against a single defendant at different times and so cause to be in existence a number of custody time limits not coinciding wholly with one another . |
| 4 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 5 | Dr Marshall , 60 , said it was disgraceful that she had been given little more than 48 hours to tidy her office . |
| 6 | For a moment Kelly thought that she had been buried alive . |
| 7 | Mabel had told everyone that she was sure that war was about to start , and at first she seemed disgruntled that she had been proved wrong , but soon was as ecstatic as everyone else about the news . |
| 8 | ‘ I heard on Wednesday from a neighbour that she had been left alone by her mother who had gone to Spain . |
| 9 | It seemed that she had been knocked silly too . |
| 10 | Winnie Mandela told supporters that she had been found guilty by the media . |
| 11 | Miss Fergusson had maintained , when they first stood before the haloed mountain , that there were two explanations of everything , that each required the exercise of faith , and that we had been given free will in order that we might choose between them . |
| 12 | When I found out that we had been placed next to each other in class with all my friends around I went , ‘ Oh no , I 'm sitting next to Grant ’ . |
| 13 | The Supreme Court held that the President was competent to make the agreement on the narrow ground that there had been implied Congressional acquiescence . |
| 14 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
| 15 | His assailants next told him that they had been given three pounds each ‘ to do you up tonight ’ by the ‘ drug squad ’ detective with whom he was already unpleasantly familiar . |
| 16 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 17 | On May 12 the director of the Lima morgue showed reporters the bodies of 36 people whose autopsies apparently showed that they had been shot dead after the siege had finished . |
| 18 | Handsome , smiling and smartly suited , he was an immediate hit , all the more so when their mother told them that they had been married that morning . |
| 19 | They were too far away for her to recognise faces , but she could imagine John and Angela among them , unaware that they had been pursued all the way from Romania . |
| 20 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 21 | On the following day , Stanley told the Finance Committee of the India Council that they had been offered this site , and pointed out the advantages of buying the land from the Government rather than obtaining a special Act of Parliament . |
| 22 | Yes sir he told me that er would know because they ha had been together in prison and that he also had information that they had been planning armed robberies together . |
| 23 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 24 | In a recent South African trial resulting from a rail accident , the drivers concerned denied responsibility on the grounds that they had been working compulsory 18-hour shifts . |
| 25 | A British team managed to reach one that , although it had been hooked several hours before , was still just living when its captor got it ashore . |
| 26 | It is not know whether the Canadian forecast was available to the crew before departure from Keflavik although it had been issued prior to that time . |
| 27 | Even the gaping hole left by de Bonneval 's precipitate retreat on Belleville Ridge had been plugged before the over-cautious Germans could exploit it — although it had been left open for twelve hours . |
| 28 | At this time , too , he carefully examined and brilliantly settled the old quarrel concerning the metropolitan church of Britanny between Tours and Dol , which although it had been judged many times by his predecessors would never have been brought to a final settlement but for him . |
| 29 | He said that it had been done wrong . |
| 30 | There was an area of bruising below the right eye but , although it was recent , Wycliffe felt sure that it had been inflicted some time before death — probably the day before . |