Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [adv] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Singh had recently been arrested on fraud charges arising out of his employment by Abbey Life Assurance Co . |
| 2 | Apparently following a plea by the newly returned Uniate Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky [ see p. 38104-05 ] , Khmara had finally been released pending trial on April 5 after almost five months in investigative custody ( the delay in bringing him to trial resulted from the original indictment having been withdrawn by the prosecution in early March for further investigations ) . |
| 3 | Hence in the present case Mr. Dennis had not been divested of his interest under the joint tenancy when his wife died . |
| 4 | Dr Meredith had already been sent for , but his lordship was of the view that my father should be moved out of the sun before the doctor 's arrival ; consequently , a bath-chair arrived and with not a little difficulty , my father was transported into the house . |
| 5 | The nursemaid felt a withdrawal of affection and was hurt , not noticing that the child was shrinking back from all emotional expression ; the hugs and kisses once lavished on Marie had not been transferred to Pamela . |
| 6 | Paatelainen had only been introduced as a substitute but he certainly made his presence felt in no uncertain manner with his 56th minute strike . |
| 7 | But Lord Robertson disallowed his evidence , firstly because of the confidentiality of the client-solicitor relationship ( though Mr Beltrami had already been issued with a waiver for this from the Scottish Law Society ) , secondly because evidence against McGuinness could not be competent as evidence against Waddell . |
| 8 | The suggestion of a ‘ social contract ’ between States had already been made in the first half of the seventeenth century by Grotius . |
| 9 | Eleanor had just been photographed for one of the supplements and it pleased him to be seen with someone in the news . |
| 10 | Malcolm Scott had never been called for throwing in his life , nor warned of what was to come . |
| 11 | Philpott had then been contacted by Graham personally on the advice of the Delta Commander . |
| 12 | Mrs T had recently been readmitted to hospital following a psychotic episode ; Mr T ( retired ) was under a lot of pressure and , following an incident when he slapped his daughter , S , her name was placed on the At Risk Register . |
| 13 | Falconer had apparently been playing with the letters of the name , breaking them up , distancing each from the other . |
| 14 | When Peter the Great took the final step of proclaiming himself Emperor in 1721 he discarded the jewelled cap in which he and his brother Ivan had originally been crowned in 1682 . |
| 15 | The court had heard that Rhys had now been accepted for a transplant operation at a Bristol hospital and the search was on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
| 16 | And , the greatest guilt of all , if she had not been in Maisie 's house … if Maisie had not been tending to the birthing … then the fire would not have happened and that darling woman would be alive today . |
| 17 | He thought again about how the changes which had occurred in the Southern Capital , to which Surere had now been exposed after so long away , might have affected such an inflexible heart . |
| 18 | Edward had never been treated like this before , and he felt dazed , swoonlike . |
| 19 | George Strauss had already been threatened with expulsion for welcoming support from the Communists during the London County Council elections in March . |
| 20 | When the post-Forum talks with the dialogue partners began on July 10 , China registered a protest over the Taiwan issue , leading to a statement , issued by the Forum secretariat on July 15 , to the effect that Taiwan had not been admitted as a full dialogue partner and that any talks in which Taiwanese representatives had participated had been held at the discretion of individual Forum members . |
| 21 | One almost complete skeleton of Crassigyrinus had previously been known from only one skull fragment . |
| 22 | Richard had already been remarked as the kind of small boy enchanted by small girls and deaf to the ridicule of his peers on the matter ; on this occasion he watched Victoria twist her curls around her fingers in motionless fascination for ten minutes , then followed her for the rest of the afternoon , fetching drinks and finding seats , carrying her favourite blue rabbit when she dropped it and picking out the choicest pieces of bread and butter for her at tea . |
| 23 | London Ambulance Service workers claimed the system crash last October led to people 's deaths , but yesterday 's document said an examination of 26 cases considered by coroners ' courts showed the LAS had not been blamed for a single death . |
| 24 | Bosnia and Herzegovina had both been administered by Austria-Hungary since 1878 but had been formally annexed only in 1908 . |
| 25 | Therefore , he said , formal guidelines for Orkney had not been submitted to the committee . |
| 26 | While the venerable AT–6 had long been used as the Hollywood Zeke , its resemblance to the real thing was marginal at best . |
| 27 | Jane had indeed been hinting at the opportunity for her husband 's murder , but she could not admit as much . |
| 28 | Eva had already been promoted to major before the usual time . |
| 29 | Wordsworth had also been experimenting with blank verse , and with the example of Coleridge 's Frost at Midnight before him , was able to reproduce ‘ the movement of the mind ’ in Tintern Abbey . |
| 30 | Baragiola had previously been convicted of murder in Italy , but had escaped in 1980 and obtained Swiss citizenship . |