Example sentences of "[pron] had been [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |
| 2 | My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet . |
| 3 | Prior to the patrol I had been given a verbal briefing on the night 's events . |
| 4 | I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined . |
| 5 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 6 | For a while I had been ringing the Lost Property office at Queen Street station each week , still pathetically hoping that the bag with Uncle Rory 's poems and Darren Watt 's Möbius scarf would somehow miraculously turn up again . |
| 7 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 8 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 9 | I had been promised a gripping afternoon 's shoot in the Locarno Gents ( where the original play was entirely set ) . |
| 10 | I had been allocated an efficient back-up team from the Civil Service : Jane Benham ( promoted near the end and replaced by Martin Howarth ) , Michael Phipps and Jenny Bacon , all of whom impressed me with their loyalty to me and their diplomatic skills . |
| 11 | Two weeks after my course finished and I was back in the ‘ real world ’ on a murder enquiry , I received notification I had been awarded the second scholarship in the force . |
| 12 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 13 | Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend . |
| 14 | She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’ |
| 15 | After I had recovered from the anaesthetic the house officer came to tell me that while I had been anaesthetised the senior registrar had in fact examined me internally . |
| 16 | When my marriage ended three years earlier I had been left an emotional pulp . |
| 17 | Here the buildings were disfigured almost beyond recognition ; some had fallen into the street while others leaned outwards , a hopeless thoroughfare of broken concrete , stones , weeds and pillaged furniture across which had been built a low barricade made of chairs , doors and broken tables . |
| 18 | The tin bath was half-filled with hot water into which had been poured the same perfumed green oil that Smallfry always added to her bath . |
| 19 | Giovanna 's husband acquired a long garden cane , which had been supporting a tottering mallow , and with it established the depth . |
| 20 | In democratic elections held on June 10 and 17 , Bulgaria , alone among the countries of Eastern Europe , returned to power the former ruling party , the erstwhile Bulgarian Communist Party which had been renamed the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) on April 3 [ see pp. 37380-81 ] . |
| 21 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 22 | Fleet Street journalists require a modest range of incentives to make them feel agreeably disposed towards something , and the maiden flight ( on a plane which had been named the Maiden Voyager ) was warmly and comprehensively reported in almost every national daily and Sunday newspaper . |
| 23 | Between the months of December and January a solitary woman can often be seen progressing through the vineyards removing the twists of wire which had been used the previous spring to attach the vines to the guide wires . |
| 24 | Browne had tentatively suggested the summer of that year as the " deadline " for it , but Eliot was uncertain how quickly he could recover his dramatic skills and , since he often needed to work slowly , he believed the spring of 1949 to be a more appropriate date.Throughout the spring and summer of 1948 he worked on it as consistently as he could , although there were egregious interruptions : in April , for example , he had to make the British Council trip to Aix-en-Provence which had been postponed the previous winter . |
| 25 | He was knighted in 1965 for his work on the Forth road bridge , which had been opened the previous year . |
| 26 | There were no injuries and damage was confined to the car , which had been hijacked the previous night in west Belfast . |
| 27 | At the end of the Irkutsk talks Baker left for Mongolia , but he cut short his visit to meet Shevardnadze in Moscow on Aug. 3 to discuss the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , which had been launched the previous day [ see pp. 37631-41 for coverage of Gulf crisis , including Baker-Shevardnadze joint statement ] . |
| 28 | Cardiff could see that he had attached a microphone of some kind to the metal container which still rested on the chair and which had been giving the so-called mysterious ‘ readings ’ . |
| 29 | In 1910 , all the other minorities , to which had been added the Muslim Serbo-Croats of Bosnia-Herzegovina ( annexed in 1909 ) , outnumbered Germans and Magyars combined and provided about 58 per cent of the subjects of the house of Habsburg . |
| 30 | By 1898 the number of books had fallen to about 180 , 44 of which had been added the previous year . |