Example sentences of "had [adv] been [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coeliac patients were originally diagnosed according to the procedure recommended by the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and had all been on a complete gluten free diet for at least five years and did not present symptoms indicative of active disease . |
| 2 | He said he had thought they had all been fighting on the German side because they had all been under a German commander when surrendering . |
| 3 | Fran had only been to the luxurious floating restaurant a couple of times , but knew from experience that the food was excellent and very expensive . |
| 4 | While on furlough in England my thoughts had naturally been on the new tasks ahead . |
| 5 | As the royal party came through the school gates , however , an entire youth brass orchestra , who again had obviously been at the ready for several hours on a cold wintry day , burst into life in the playground . |
| 6 | ‘ He had long been in a bad state of health , which he took no care to repair but on the contrary lived in such a manner as greatly promoted the disorders he had had long upon him , this brought on the Flux which put a period to his life ’ ( Cook ) . |
| 7 | As most of the leading American challengers arrived at the tough , par-70 lay-out to begin their preparation , Faldo had already been through a punishing schedule since Thursday . |
| 8 | Her nerves had already been in a bad enough state . |
| 9 | Forgotten was the fearful nail-biting exercise Monaghan Day had always been for the whole house ; with distance it had become large , heroic , blood-mystical , something from which the impossible could be snatched . |
| 10 | And when Jessamy had tried to speak to Julius at his office , Eleanor had always been on the other end of the phone , trotting out some barely plausible excuse why Julius could n't talk to her . |
| 11 | Stephanie had always been on the heavy side for her 5 ft 4 ins ( 1.6m ) frame . |
| 12 | Examination of the metal showed that it had always been in a clean condition with no evidence of corrosion , suggesting that it had never been buried . |
| 13 | The particular premises that Let It Rock occupied had always been in the very vanguard of London fashion trends but working there was n't as much of a shock as I thought it was going to be at first . |
| 14 | His real interest had always been in the scientific aspects of his work . |
| 15 | Julie and I had never fallen out before , and Barbie had always been like a big sister to me , too . |
| 16 | Imagine his surprise , therefore , when he discovered that not a single German he met had ever been in the Nazi Party , let alone had even heard of a concentration camp . |
| 17 | I do not believe that any more could have been done — certainly not if the company had still been in the public sector . |
| 18 | If hunting had once been in the red bitch 's blood it had long since been bred out and forgotten . |
| 19 | Later I realised he had also been in the other two . |
| 20 | On the whole , they had either been through the English education system and had therefore a good command of English and a limited domestic register in their other languages , or they had been educated abroad and learnt their English as adults when they arrived in this country . |
| 21 | Both the new leader and the modernisation programme had previously been on the political scene , but at the end of the 1970s they appeared to be in a much stronger position than ever before . |
| 22 | With Collins , the Human League , Japan , Simple Minds , Heaven 17 ( whose two pony tailed members had previously been in the Human League ) , Virgin began to swamp the pop charts . |
| 23 | One caller believed the man had recently been on an internal flight in Britain and could now be in the south of England . |
| 24 | At the time of writing that message , its author had certainly been in the right frame to oust Theo Sykes from the role of chief suspect . |
| 25 | I had never been on the Upper West Side before , but it still reminded me of something . |
| 26 | ‘ I was with British Steel before coming here and had never been to a live theatre show before except the pantomime as a kid . |
| 27 | He had never been to the Far East — in fact he had not fought in the War at all . |
| 28 | In addition , he had never been to the big house and had no idea where to go , or whom to see . |
| 29 | Maggie had never been to the big barn before , the one that had looked so imposing from the air . |
| 30 | ‘ There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness and then — instantaneously — the long inhibition was over , the dry desert lay behind , I was off once more into the land of longing , my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been since the old days at Bookham . ’ |