Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mitra had been considered the leading rival to Ramos for Aquino 's endorsement . |
| 2 | Mr Justice Otton was told they regretted helping to give currency to the allegation that John Major and Miss Latimer had been conducting an adulterous relationship . |
| 3 | Although Bernice had been dealt a few rough cards in her life , she still thought that there could be something better . |
| 4 | Britta had been watching the other woman — the one the Doctor called Benny — when the screens had come on . |
| 5 | John Rodwell , a specialist inspector from the Health and Safety Executive , said it appeared Mr Eaton had been using the burning torch to cut at the edge of the slot at one end of the pipe trying to open it and hot gases could have caused it to become dislodged and fall . |
| 6 | I read a short news item in which it was announced that Justine had been hanged the previous Saturday , the 24th , after several postponements of the event . |
| 7 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |
| 8 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 9 | Yassir Arafat and Kemal Jumblatt had been summoned the previous winter to Damascus , where they told Assad that they were winning the war and wished to move all the way into the Christian heartland . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | To the Ryans and their like , Anthony had been given a magnificent send-off . |
| 12 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 13 | Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Berdennikov said on Sept. 14 that the Soviet Union and later Russia had been violating a 1972 treaty banning germ warfare , at least until March 1992 . |
| 14 | England had been given a pre-match boost by World Cup rivals Holland 's failure to beat group two leaders Norway in Rotterdam . |
| 15 | On May 7 the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry claimed that Armenia had been waging an undeclared war on Azerbaijan , and that in over 300 cross-border attacks since the beginning of the year a total of 61 Azerbaijanis had been killed . |
| 16 | Omagh boss Paul Kee had been chasing the tall Limerick central defender for more than a fortnight . |
| 17 | Malekith had been shown the secret trade routes of the Dwarfs during his period as Bel Shanaar 's ambassador , and he now used that knowledge to his own benefit . |
| 18 | Matthew had been making a detailed fire-protection plan for the acres which Fairfax had wanted to replant or afforest . |
| 19 | Bert Rafferty had been given an unexpected day off . |
| 20 | Newley had been wearing a black , loosely knitted jersey , which was why Dougal had not noticed the wounds earlier . |
| 21 | Maudie had been expecting a better response from her friends , or at the very least a little sympathy , but they seemed not to care . |
| 22 | The opposition Conservative Party elected Kaci Kullmann Five as party chair and John Bernander as deputy on April 20 ; Anne Enger Lahnstein had been chosen a few weeks earlier as leader of the agrarian Centre Party . |
| 23 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 24 | Earlier , on Oct. 5 , Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi had been appointed the first woman member of the Supreme Court . |
| 25 | They have a superior front five , although the Pontypridd lock Mark Rowley had been getting the better of several big names lately and will relish the prospect of testing himself against Tony Copsey . |
| 26 | Mr Butler had been taking a collection-box home when he was attacked on the Tube , kicked in the face , kneed in the stomach , had his head banged against a door and almost strangled . |
| 27 | Amy , 42 , took a different tack when she found that Joe had been leading a double life for 18 months , holed up with a ravishing ex-model 15 years her junior while she believed he was ‘ opening up new markets ’ in Middle Europe . |
| 28 | Keeling had been arrested the previous day and put on a flight to London . |
| 29 | However , the Court of Apothecaries took the view that Miller had been paying the increased rent for some years and declined to sanction the proposed allowance . |
| 30 | Maxim had been reassembling the cleaned and dried gun . |