Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [adv] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 After 87 minutes Luton 's woe was complete as Sharp headed in a cross from Bernard , who had just been denied by another splendid stop from Chamberlain .
2 30th March 1808 ‘ saw a woman on Blackfriar 's Bridge who had just been killed by a horse which had run away — the horse was stopped just about half way between that market and the bridge , drank tea and supped with Mr. Hills — Mr. Pyne was there — met Mr. Reinagle ’ .
3 ‘ It could be the killer was somebody who had just been passing by the apartment block . ’
4 This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle .
5 But her terrifying three-hour ordeal ended when police overpowered Khamton Omvaree , in his thirties — who had just been freed from a 10-year sentence under a royal amnesty .
6 I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer .
7 Pritt , MP , who had just been expelled from the Labour Party , its main support came from the Communists .
8 By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit .
9 Its central theme concerns a young man , Colby Simpkins , who has entered the service of Sir Claude Mulhammer as a " confidential clerk " ; Mulhammer in fact believes Colby to be his illegitimate son , raised by a Mrs Guzzard in Teddington , but his paternity is thrown in doubt when Sir Claude 's wife , Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer , claims Colby as her own illegitimate son who had also been dispatched to Mrs Guzzard .
10 Throughout his evidence , Price implicated the applicant ( whom he identified from a photograph ) in those dealings as the man who had informed him of the consignment of cannabis in Sweden , and had asked him and a man named Ryan ( who had also been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment ) to deliver it to customers in Sweden .
11 Sentence was suspended until Sept. 25 on Sir Jack Lyons , an independent financier , who had also been convicted on two conspiracy charges , three false accounting charges and one theft charge .
12 A further 60 prisoners who had also been detained in the April 1989 riots [ see p. 36602 ] were also released .
13 Two civilian judges then separately issued arrest warrants on Oct. 2 against Garcete and Gen. Emilio Balbuena , commander of the third army corps , who had also been implicated by González Rojas in the car smuggling scandal .
14 Kakuei Tanaka , a former Prime Minister ( in 1972-74 ) who had also been implicated in the Lockheed scandal of the mid-1970s , had already acknowledged that he had received money from the Sagawa group .
15 Standing there in shade , I observed the man and woman who had also been eating in the hotel emerge with their child .
16 But by March 1951 , it was clear that even this reform did not satisfy the Irish hierarchy who had also been lobbied by the Irish Medical Association to oppose the scheme .
17 Amongst dramatic recoveries were two chronically deaf patients who had also been suffering from totally disabling tinnitus .
18 Suzanne , who had also been burned by cigarettes , is said to be critically ill .
19 In July 1975 he escaped with his brothers , who had also been arrested in 1974 .
20 Sycorax was lying in the common pit , alongside the cadavers of islanders who had also been caught in the fighting , and were awaiting return for burial under the terms of the peace .
21 Just then my sister , who had secretly been listening outside the forge , called to Joe through one of the windows , ‘ You fool !
22 In February the Interior Minister , Col. Djibril Ould Abdullah , who had generally been considered to be second in the political hierarchy and had been involved in 1986 in the vigorous suppression of unrest among black Mauritanians , was dismissed and replaced by Col. Mohammed Sidina Ould Sidya , a southerner [ see p. 37239 ] .
23 At the beginning of October , Kathy , who had again been invited for supper , arrived at Clare 's apartment to find that nothing had been cooked .
24 Maj. Rupert Christopher , a close aide of the instigator of the December coup , Lt.-Col. Désiré " Desi " Bouterse ( who had immediately been reinstated as C.-in-C. of the Army ) , became Minister of Defence .
25 In a further development concerning the scandal , it was announced by the authorities on Dec. 22 that no further indictments would be filed either against Kanemaru — who had already been indicted on minor charges — or against any of the other Diet members implicated in the receipt of Sagawa Kyubin funds .
26 Stoltenberg , who had already been criticized in October 1991 over the illegal sale of arms to Israel [ see p. 38687 ] , was the CDU 's longest-serving Cabinet member .
27 Many shrewd judges , both on the veldt and in England , though that the Springbok selectors were taking a massive gamble with Griffin , who had already been called for throwing in his own country , especially as unfair bowling had lately become a major issue .
28 S. , who had already been charged with numerous offences arising from transactions to which the documents were germane , sought judicial review of the decision to serve the notice .
29 For instance , the West , Roy and Nichols study looked at the cases of men who had already been incarcerated in an institution for mentally ill offenders — they were not a random sample of even those few rapists who are convicted .
30 Certainly Artai would consider no one who had already been married to another , whether she had children or not .
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