Example sentences of "[noun pl] had been [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 2 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 3 | The youngest children had been out in the playground ; some of them survived . |
| 4 | Counsel for the ‘ Seventeen Towns ’ , claimed by Finch to be within the forest bounds , produced in rebuttal the perambulations of 1298 and 1300 , and their confirmation by Act of Parliament in 1336 , urging also that these towns had been out of the forest by ‘ the long and constant Usage ever since . |
| 5 | In the meantime the others had been out on the track and found the footprints of the Friar and the distinctive mark of his staff . |