Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Ceauşescu 's chief intelligence adviser , Ion Pacepa , defected to the United States in 1978 , he claimed that Ceauşescu had been engaged in a long-term strategic plan codenamed ‘ Red Horizon ’ . |
| 2 | A joint communiqué issued on May 19 said that the talks between Jiang and Gorbachev had been held in a " friendly , frank and businesslike atmosphere " and had covered " the whole range of Soviet-Chinese relations " . |
| 3 | The Walshes had been caught in a strange yet powerful trap and it was difficult to see how they were going to be able to break free . |
| 4 | Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back . |
| 5 | The trial , on 4 February , heard that Shiloh had been running in a race at Carfin dog track in August last year when he broke his leg . |
| 6 | Mrs Meikle said just two days ago Graham had been seen in a local pub . |
| 7 | I remember , when I was writing the biography of George Sand , I read in all her biographies that her grandmother had married a certain Comte de Horne , an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; that the marriage had not been consummated and that the Comte de Horne had been killed in a duel . |
| 8 | Long before Sartre developed his own form of Marxist-Hegelian history , Bachelard had been working in a critical relation to Hegelian historicism . |
| 9 | The Duce had been reduced in a stroke from Head of State to a more or less insignificant cavaliere ( a commonplace title in Italy ) . |
| 10 | Comdisco had been playing in a high stakes financial game known as risk arbitrage , hoping to get ahead of the rapid run-up in a company 's share price when it became the object of a takeover ( or the reversal of fortune that occurred when a takeover fell apart ) . |
| 11 | In reality Roland had been killed in a Basque ambush at the Pass of Roncesvaux but in twelfth-century legend he died gloriously , fighting for Christendom in the great war against the infidel . |
| 12 | One of the Quorn had been discovered in a very loose-box with a girl from the Cotswold and dropped from his team . |
| 13 | Futre had been substituted in a warm-up match prior to departure for Valetta and had subsequently fallen out with Quieroz and was left at home for being ‘ not in the correct frame of mind ’ to play a World Cup tie . |
| 14 | Marjory had been killed in a fall from a horse two years earlier ; but a boy child , Robert , was born from her dead body . |
| 15 | The UP accused the government of responsibility for the murder ; until December Gutiérrez had been held in a top-security prison in Bogotá , but he was then transferred to Medellín and released for Christmas to join his family . |
| 16 | But the continuing confusion of the hostage situation , in Beirut and the Lebanon , was underlined by the claims of former hostage , David Jacobsen today , that Frank Reed had been held in a neighbouring cell and had tried to escape . |
| 17 | Poland had been trapped in a time capsule , and try as it might to struggle free , the parameters of its political and spiritual life had been set firm for years to come by the humiliation of invisibility . |
| 18 | Fateh-ul-Mulk had been poisoned in a court intrigue well before 1857 , but his six-year-old son , the Princess 's father , had survived both this and the Mutiny . |
| 19 | The Council , as Eadmer describes it , was arranged round the tomb of St Peter , with Urban II and the cardinals ( among whom Anselm had been placed in a seat of honour ) sitting in the apse behind the altar , and the remainder of the Council spread out in front of them . |
| 20 | Porter had been raised in a children 's home from the time he was two years old . |