Example sentences of "family had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it did this the family had been on the point of vesting the house in a charitable trust , which would have secured its future complete with contents . |
| 2 | For every Palestinian who expressed doubts about the worth of returning , there were hundreds who would go back to what is now Israel if they had the opportunity to do so , people like David Damiani , a Christian whose family had been in Palestine since the time of the Crusades . |
| 3 | At no. 52 lived Mr. Maton with his elderly spinster sister , a very quiet couple whose family had been in the house for almost two centuries . |
| 4 | She and her family had been in the States over a year now , and had moved from Boston to New York . |
| 5 | Through her time of growing up , Miranda had had to talk so loud to interrupt the brawling , crying , canoodling jag that was her parent 's marriage , to entertain so insistently in order to divert them from the partying , bickering , kiss-and-make-up affair that absorbed them totally , that she had become as deaf to tremors and to nuances as her former games mistress shouting ‘ Bombs Coming Over ’ or ‘ Scrub the Decks ’ through a megaphone in the gym at the dim convent Miranda had been sent to for those three years of her childhood when the family had been in funds . |
| 6 | Until then , newspaper coverage of the Royal Family had been in a fairly lengthy decline . |
| 7 | But that had been more than a dozen years ago , when Robbie 's family had been in better financial circumstances . |
| 8 | If one of his family had been in the same position surely he 'd expect a stiffer sentence than the one given today |
| 9 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 10 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |