Example sentences of "had [been] taught [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was to be proved right , as we had been taught a Spartan routine for our babies at ‘ Alderbourne Arches ’ the pre-natal training unit . |
| 2 | In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it . |
| 3 | Neither had practised archery before becoming immobile ; one of them had been taught the art at Pinderfields Hospital at Wakefield and had gone on to become captain of his club . |
| 4 | He had been taught the hard lesson that you eat where there is food , because food is sustenance and without it there is failure and collapse . |
| 5 | We had been taught the history of the organisation , and each day were learning more about its curious codes of morality and behaviour . |
| 6 | He had been trained at the Douai seminary and had been taught the art not only of argument but also of secrecy . |
| 7 | A decade or so previously , Nizan had been taught the same bitter lesson . |
| 8 | ‘ Father wanted someone to inherit who knew Venice and had been taught the business , someone who 'd been trained to the position . ’ |