Example sentences of "had [adv] been [vb pp] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oak Grove Road slopes down sharply from Croydon Road and houses had already been built nearly half way down . |
| 2 | The case had already been adjourned earlier this month because Miss Hamilton 's driving licence had been stolen and there was a delay in getting a copy . |
| 3 | He had already been seen once that day . |
| 4 | The new audience was a mass audience but no previous audience in history had ever been given so much careful attention . |
| 5 | The young lad had also been battered unmercifully many a time and on that particular night he had decided he would put an end to the violence by teaching his drunken father a lesson he would never forget . |
| 6 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |