Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] had been [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A jury swore in 1266 that John son of Nigel and his ancestors had been foresters of fee of Bernwood Forest ‘ from the Conquest of England ’ : another jury declared that the ancestors of William son of Adam had been granted the manor of Hutton-in-the Forest by Henry I , to hold by the serjeanty of keeping the bailiwick of Plumpton in Inglewood Forest . |
| 2 | His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district . |
| 3 | The treaty of Brétigny had been termed the ‘ Great Peace ’ ; that of Troyes came to be known , at least in English circles , as the ‘ Final Peace ’ . |
| 4 | Forestry interests and landowners in Scotland had been lobbying the Scottish Office to draw the teeth of the NCC because it had been too successful in defending the uplands from conifers . |
| 5 | Officials in Washington had been sounding the warning for over four years , noting that Guatemala is a trans-shipment point for Colombian cocaine and heroin heading north to the United States and Mexico . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Philips in Holland had been pioneering the use of ‘ Laservision ’ videodiscs , the least unsuccessful of several types of disc for carrying video films . |