Example sentences of "that had been [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were on the dusty painted dresser , on the shelves , and on a tin tray before a freckled old mirror that had been hanging in the bathroom . |
| 2 | Few fights — occasionally , you 'd get a man who 'd been gashed in the face with a bottle , that had been drunk in the bar and you 'd be called in and you 'd take him to hospital . |
| 3 | But this time , the voices were not in the distress of agony that had been heard in the reception area . |
| 4 | When the political and moral credibility of the Soviet system collapsed in 1956 , something that had been slumbering in the depths of Sartre 's consciousness was suddenly reawakened . |
| 5 | The first fighter to use P–5 Mustangs in the Eighth Air Force , the 357th had a faster rate of kills than any other unit within the Mighty Eighth The 357th featured may top ‘ ace ’ pilots and five survivors , Chuck Yeager , Clarence Bud Anderson , Leonard Kit Carson , Richard Peterson and Tommy Hayes were all present at Oshkosh to be reunited with five Mustangs that had been painted in the markings carried by ‘ their ’ wartime aircraft . |
| 6 | Birds of paradise skins that had been prepared in the traditional way by natives of Papua New Guinea had had their legs removed ; for a considerable time even respectable scientists thought there might be a land where birds never settled . |
| 7 | The storm that had been circling in the distance wandered far off , only an occasional casual flicker of light low in the sky showed that somewhere the enormous battle was going on . |
| 8 | He did not consider the quantity of valuable raw materials and energy that had been consumed in the fridge 's manufacture . |
| 9 | He had seen for himself the progress that had been made in the three days since he had last visited the laboratories . |
| 10 | This afternoon to the Commons and talked to Frank Barlow , the Secretary of the PLP , who told me in detail the arrangements that had been made in the event of Harold Wilson dying . |
| 11 | Some of them presented her with gifts that had been made in the centre 's workshops . |
| 12 | Many of the shapes that had been developed in the Early Minoan nevertheless continued in use , especially the one-handled cup and the jar with a short spout on its shoulder , bridged by the rim . |
| 13 | Secondly , in order to maximize the use of scarce capital resources , industries were selected that could utilize the backlog of technological change that had been developed in the Western economies . |
| 14 | Children were playing on the green , a wet labrador that had been swimming in the beck was drying out by the village cross , and there was just room amongst the people sat at the table outside the pub for one man and his dog . |
| 15 | In 1981 , six of the 280 LLMAs accounted for over half of the people in Britain that had been born in the New Commonwealth or Pakistan ( NCWP ) . |
| 16 | Dr Kemp himself ! — the man who had one day been deprived of a jewel which he himself had traced to an American collector , a jewel for which he had been negotiating , a jewel that had been found in the waters below the bridge at Wolvercote in 1873 , a jewel which once united with its mate would doubtless be the subject of some considerable historical interest , and bring some short-term celebrity , possibly some long-term preferment , to himself — to Kemp . |
| 17 | For the Victoria and Albert exhibition , ‘ The Destruction of the Country House ’ , Peter Reid compiled a list of more than 1,200 houses that had been demolished in the preceding century . |
| 18 | I 'd stamp up and down as I walked along , and up would pop the balls that had been buried in the sand . |
| 19 | He especially liked the old and rare trees that had been planted in the garden by a previous owner , Colonel Mitchell , who bought the house in 1893 . |
| 20 | Late in 1991 they were completed and returned to Rochester and around the same time the Merlin 266 engine that had been rebuilt in the USA came home and was fitted to the airframe . |
| 21 | The contrasting features of basin-and-rise facies displayed by the Trevose Slate and the Plymouth Limestone vividly illustrate the continuation in the marine setting of tectonic activity that had been established in the terrestrial Lower Devonian succession . |
| 22 | It was , for example , quite common in the last century for ivory objects to be carved from mammoth tusk that had been preserved in the permafrost of the Siberian tundra since the last Ice Age ! |
| 23 | Fifteen of the films , the targets , were exactly the same pieces of film that had been shown in the judgment phase . |
| 24 | Subjects watched a further 48 films , 24 of the films , the targets , were exactly the same pieces of film that had been shown in the judgment phase . |
| 25 | A later chapter will examine the changes that had been introduced in the examination system , but for the dominant minority in grammar-school sixth forms very little had changed . |
| 26 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
| 27 | At first it was just the bodies that had been left in the corridors . |
| 28 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
| 29 | Despite attempts to glamorise those who died fulfilling their ‘ internationalist duty ’ in Afghanistan , there were many letters in the Soviet press complaining of the one-sided treatment of the war that had been provided in the Soviet media and of the failure to make proper provision for the wounded on their return to the USSR . |
| 30 | Clothes , mostly small garments , were hanging from the rails that had been knocked in the partition . |