Example sentences of "that [noun] had been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before long , Maudie had a baby — and soon after that , a telegram arrived saying that Arnold had been killed in action . |
| 2 | Whenever anybody started to make fun of Lennie , calling him cuckoo or crazy , George jumped straight to Lennie 's defence and said that Lennie had been kicked in the head when he was a little boy . |
| 3 | Police said that Kelly had been shot in the head by Bastian who then turned the gun on himself . |
| 4 | Immediately after the dummy was produced , Thornton found that money had been raised in his home city of Newcastle by using his name without permission . |
| 5 | ‘ We know for a fact that bombs had been prepared in the past for Portadown but the security presence in the area prevented them from being used here . |
| 6 | On Jan. 29 , however , Pöhl disclosed to a German financial newspaper , Handesblatt , that Germany had been isolated in its opposition to an accord on currency " target zones " at the G-7 meeting . |
| 7 | When the Weimar Republic was founded , the feeling that Germany had once again been suppressed by victorious external powers was very strong : the division of Prussia into East and West , the imposition of reparations ( the economic effects of which Keynes so famously and misguidedly attacked ) and the association of republicanism and parliamentarianism with defeat all fostered the belief that Germany had been stabbed in the back . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Congress was told that journalists had been registered in only fifty of ninety guberniia committees . |
| 10 | He was conscious that Therese had been engaging in ‘ business ’ but had n't appreciated how it had looked from the front until it was too late to do anything about it . |
| 11 | Finally , Horse Watch heard that Millie had been spotted in the New Forest . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | It was denied that force had been used in the initial operation . |
| 14 | Many Russian exiles have long suspected that spies had been planted in their midst by the KGB , and for some the advertisements confirmed their darkest fears . |
| 15 | He guessed that Turakina had been engaged in yet another attempt to negotiate a match on his behalf , and wondered which family had been involved . |
| 16 | They 'd been separated in the fracas which followed their parachute descent into northern France , and she feared that Jeanne had been killed in the fighting . |
| 17 | The usher explained that Eva had been working in Africa and was now principal of an international college . |
| 18 | Western reports said that troops had been massing in the region since December 1990 . |
| 19 | Alexandra grew even crosser as it became obvious that Matthew had been invited in his own right . |
| 20 | When the US army discovered that Silver had been engaged in research work ( on Whitman ) he was put to personally testing the durability of uniforms , in sub-zero and boiling temperatures , artificial rain storms in laboratories and real tropical conditions in Florida : he soon became an assistant director of this project and stayed there for two years . |
| 21 | Q Some time ago , I read that changes had been made in what ERNIE pays out each month . |
| 22 | Further back sat a heavy wooden table , and on it she found a note from the building 's owner , informing her that provisions had been left in the fridge , that there was an ample supply of coal and logs in the shed outside , and wishing her ‘ good snow and happy skiing ’ . |
| 23 | The hearing revealed that undertrials had been held in Bihar gaols for up to ten years , in some cases spending years longer on remand than the maximum possible sentence . |
| 24 | Palmer had noticed that something was wrong with the water , even before taking the sample , and volunteered the opinion ( subsequently confirmed ) that cattle had been drinking in it upstream . |
| 25 | He believed , for example , that Christ had been conceived in the normal way and then sanctified by God rather than being born of a virgin . |
| 26 | The day after that smoke signal was released , the same non-attributable sources let it be known that Heseltine had been rebuked in Cabinet for busting the collective line . |
| 27 | The sensible thing would have been to say that Crabb had been diving in the area to test out equipment and had got into difficulties , surfaced near the Russian ships and then drowned . |
| 28 | Nicholas protested that he ‘ verily believed the Pope to be anti-Christ and would pull down a room in his house if he learned that Mass had been celebrated in it ’ . |
| 29 | A Department of Health spokesman said yesterday that doctors had been warned in June against using propofol . |
| 30 | The only systematic disentanglement from corporatist theorizing and policy analysis of the administrative component was by R. E. Pahl and J. T. Winkler , writing at a time when it seemed that Britain had been developing in the direction of corporatism for the previous fifteen years and was experiencing sectoral planning , planning agreements and statutory or voluntary controls over prices , profit margins , dividends , wages , rents and the movement of capital . |