Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been born there and the Burnses had been part of the village for generations . |
| 2 | He bent to get a closer look at one drawing that had been fixed lower than the others , as if the teacher had somehow tried to segregate it off and pretend that it was n't part of the display . |
| 3 | What had occurred was precisely the sort of ‘ semi-hysterical outburst of militancy ’ which McCann had criticised , and far from exposing and isolating the Nationalists , an informal united front had been struck up and the politicians were being allowed to clamber onto the DHAC 's bandwagon . |
| 4 | The Court had no knowledge of the case stated that had been struck out and the Crown 's case stated had duly proceeded . |
| 5 | The scaffolding had been cleared away and the plastering had progressed as far as the season would allow . |
| 6 | David Reynolds said after the money had been rammed home and the tone had cycled , ‘ Carson , are you alone ? ’ |
| 7 | The buttons had been ripped off and the pockets torn open , but it kept me warm . |
| 8 | The stable block had been built later than the house , in the mid-eighteenth century . |
| 9 | Mr Rampton said the text showed that ‘ subterfuge ’ had been crossed out and the word ‘ silence ’ substituted . |
| 10 | The entire shop front had been blown away and the ceiling was badly damaged . |
| 11 | The front door and the vestibule door had been blown off and the heavy mahogany coat stand lay across the foot of the stairs . |
| 12 | Substantial changes to the original draft of the bill , notably the extension of all its provisions to cover Pomaks , had been secured partly as the result of agitation by several thousand Turks and Pomaks who demonstrated outside the National Assembly during the March 5 session . |
| 13 | Redpath had been called in because the body on the mud had been reported by P.C. Clifford from a land-based patrol car , but whether it was properly a land or a river matter was a moot point . |
| 14 | Patrick had been called in when the man had threatened his team with a baseball bat . |
| 15 | The two sides agreed to resume border trade which had been cut off since the 1962 Sino-Indian war [ see p. 38006 ] , and joint working groups on the border issue met in New Delhi in August 1990 and in Beijing in May 1991 . |
| 16 | The reporter to Strathclyde 's children 's panel had appealed the decision and giving yesterday 's judgment , Lord Murray , sitting with Lords Osborne and Wylie , said it had been pointed out that the sheriff had excluded any question of reasonable chastisement in this case . |
| 17 | For example , inside , the stations of the cross had been arranged counter-clockwise and the decorations were way ‘ over the top ’ . |
| 18 | The obvious thing was to jot down quickly what had been said so that the speechreader would be ‘ on beam ’ and laugh too . |
| 19 | In the second painting , every irregularity in her figure had been emphasised so that the girl stretching outwards from a balcony to pick a ripe , hanging fruit appeared as misshapen as a fairy-tale goblin . |
| 20 | All pretence that the paper ever belonged to MacQuillan personally had been given up and the title transferred to a newly formed company within the MacQuillan empire . |
| 21 | I would therefore hold that where there is a split trial or more accurately , in relation to a non-jury case , a split hearing , any party may appeal without leave against an order made at the end of one part if he could have appealed against such an order without leave if both parts had been heard together and the order had been made at the end of the complete hearing . |
| 22 | Earlier proposals for capital investment had been turned down because the line had been considered beyond further improvement . |
| 23 | His skull had been kicked in and the dark blood seeped out , mingling with the grey sludge of his brains . |
| 24 | push the bed , the bed had been pushed up and the stuff had tumbled and I just moved it all away |
| 25 | It is true that in the case of Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran Slade LJ attached considerable significance to the fact that the land there in question had been fenced off and the gate locked , but the position it seems to me is quite different in a metropolitan context such as one finds in Brighton . |
| 26 | It was a repeat of the result of the first Fourball series at Muirfield village two years ago but only the second time that the Americans had been shut out since the fourball format was introduced at Atlanta in 1963 . |
| 27 | ‘ If the business had been shut down and the premises sold , what would have happened to you ? ’ |
| 28 | In November of 1968 , he responded to the demands of Derry Catholics by proposing that the Londonderry City Corporation ( which since partition had been gerrymandered so that the Protestant minority retained control ) be replaced by a nominated body , that housing allocation be removed from political control to be administered on a fair ‘ points for needs ’ system , and that the Special Powers Act be re-examined . |
| 29 | ‘ The kitchen drawer had been pulled out and the coal bucket had been overturned . |
| 30 | The safety surface at the play area near his home in Kendal Drive , Great Sutton , had been torn up and the debris dumped around the climbing frame . |