Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew that I 'd have to keep Dawn in my bedroom to start with , and she 'd been beginning to have second thoughts about letting me do that . |
| 2 | Two makeshift goal-posts had been erected using assorted lengths of strapped sugar cane , and she could hear a lively dispute about the penalty rules . |
| 3 | He had had all the advantages of what my father called ‘ a good family background ’ ; he spoke with an educated voice ; he had been raised to respect good manners . |
| 4 | Inspectors had been appointed to investigate two companies under the control of Robert Maxwell . |
| 5 | It had been built to accommodate sixteen patients and in February of that year was occupied by twenty-one paupers , for whose maintenance the Board of Guardians had been responsible . |
| 6 | The move was announced as the Soviet Union came under increasing pressure to hold a summit meeting , at which it had been planned to initiate major changes in the organization , as agreed in principle at the June 1990 summit of the Pact [ see p. 37550 ] . |
| 7 | Detective Inspector Alan Brown said it had been done to create more addicts but resulted in a trebling of the number of fatalities . |
| 8 | Philip Head , Chief Executive of the WDA , said it was the first time the agency had been asked to source Welsh suppliers for a company based in Germany and resulted directly from the WDA campaign to build business links with the motor regions of Europe . |
| 9 | Mr Michael had been asked to arrange electronic sweeps of all office communication equipment in the interests of personal security . |
| 10 | Sometimes he managed to abstract a page he particularly liked and take it home , He had a whole article on a young actress who had been asked to model some clothes . |
| 11 | He had been asked to speak some months ago on the subject , ‘ A Woman 's Place ’ . |
| 12 | At an emergency Arab League meeting in Cairo on March 22 [ see p. 38839 ] a seven-member committee had been formed to investigate possible solutions to the dispute . |
| 13 | Pearce , set to be named as England 's captain for the World Cup qualifying campaign , had been hoping to renegotiate new terms despite signing a five-year contract worth £1m two years ago . |
| 14 | The meeting , originally scheduled for Feb. 11-13 [ see p. 37945 ] , was jointly announced by Bush and Gorbachev on July 17 when they met in London during a brief visit by Gorbachev who had been invited to meet assembled heads of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) countries [ see pp. 38321-22 ] . |
| 15 | Hilary had been invited to present two papers ; the main one ‘ Recreative Movement and Dance in the United Kingdom for the Dance Section and another entitled ‘ The Voice of British Sport — the Central Council of Physical Recreation ’ for the Administration Section . |
| 16 | By December , when payment had been delayed using various excuses , Feigen began to get suspicious and sent letters directly to the museum . |
| 17 | Well by nineteen forty two rationing had been extended to include most foodstuffs except fresh fruit and vegetables . |
| 18 | An attempt had been made to offset recent enclosures by letting out a few five-acre plots , rent and tithe free , to deserving poor , but the newer legislation continued to make things difficult . |
| 19 | Questions whirled in her brain as the play progressed , unfolding its tale to an appreciative audience , yet she was no nearer to an answer as the curtain dropped for the final time after the cast had been made to take several bows . |
| 20 | A crude attempt had been made to erase three initials , but they were still plainly visible . |
| 21 | A spokeswoman for the Saatchi Collection said the sales did not signal a lessening commitment to the collection , but had been made to finance new acquisitions . |
| 22 | Attempts had been made to find alternative uses , but it was evident that nothing suitable was forthcoming . |
| 23 | Over the previous two years the lower-school IS work had been restructured to incorporate new elements and an increased use of project work . |
| 24 | The materials which had been developed embodied accepted features of good practice in adult education with an emphasis on group interaction and exchange of ideas . |
| 25 | ‘ These men had been trained to do specific jobs and we did not want to see their skills just thrown away . ’ |
| 26 | On Oct. 17 sources in Saudi Arabia said that it had been decided to renew economic relations with Jordan which had been suspended since the Gulf War . |
| 27 | What it did not want the public to know was that Blake had been authorised to do shady deals with Russian intelligence , including the betrayal of MI6 agents in East Germany , and the whole plan had backfired because he was a spy already . |
| 28 | It had been hoped to make six trips a day with each helicopter carrying six stretchers and four other wounded civilians . |
| 29 | Leave had been sought to add those questions by way of amendment to the grounds for relief , but that leave was refused by Macpherson J. on 7 June 1991 , when he indicated the questions could be raised before this court with our leave . |
| 30 | I was not alone — the Philips team had been kept waiting many hours on several days — though I was beginning to despair of hanging around at the theatre during a five-hour ‘ patching ’ session , being granted only 15 distracted minutes in a break , when we finally resumed our conversation towards midnight . |