Example sentences of "had [adv] been [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 2 | Like the previous speakers I greatly welcome the concessions er proposed by the Government er in the police aspect of the Bill , although I c ca n't refrain from commenting that I simply can not understand why they were surprised at the reaction to their original proposal , given what had already been said in this House and by everybody that they consulted , but welcome though these concessions are , er I myself find them falling short of the ideal in three respects . |
| 3 | They told me that no one had ever been hurt like this ; but was n't it only a question of time ? |
| 4 | They somehow managed to persuade the owners , apparently it was and it was and nobody else had ever been allowed in this place not even erm historians who write about famous buildings , even they had been refused access ! |
| 5 | Yet these farmers had usually been placed in this situation because there was no one else willing to take on the task . |
| 6 | He could get items that had once been owned by this author or that author , and there was a market for these , particularly for letters . |
| 7 | John Wesley and his close associate John Berridge ( 1716–93 ) , the Rector of Everton , had both been addicted to this practice ; both had used it to obtain an answer at a particular time to the knotty question whether to get married . |
| 8 | But , after nearly an hour , it was obvious that she had simply been brought to this near-empty building and left for the police to find her . |
| 9 | There is evidence to suggest that they had indeed been introduced before this to some offices — possibly as early as before Christmas 1872 — but it is clear from the strike committee minutes that they were not regarded by the union as a threat of any significance compared with that of outside labour . |
| 10 | Edward had never been treated like this before , and he felt dazed , swoonlike . |
| 11 | Though I had never been hurt like this before , strangely enough I bore him no resentment for these beatings , accepting them as the penalty for what I had done . |