Example sentences of "had [adv] been [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both pieces of equipment had obviously been rebuilt with meticulous and loving care and shone with glossy new paint of the dark green picked out with gold which I always associate with the more impressive railway engines . |
| 2 | All this would be understandable , of course , if these local forces had merely been dealing with minor coastal raiding , and one can not always be sure that their enemies were very numerous . |
| 3 | The mobile radio truck , belonging to the Mass Communications Organization of Thailand , had apparently been interfering with military radio frequencies , and the armed forces sought the removal from the Cabinet of Police Capt. Chalerm Yubamrung , a Minister attached to the Prime Minister 's Office , when Chalerm publicly criticized the military over the affair . |
| 4 | S. , who had already been charged with numerous offences arising from transactions to which the documents were germane , sought judicial review of the decision to serve the notice . |
| 5 | Rachel , who had already been battling with unpredictable sensations brought on by the close proximity of David clad only in his brief black swimming-trunks , felt her cheeks flame and could n't bring herself to look at him . |
| 6 | No. 16 , which because of the poor condition of its body , had already been re-pillared with five windows , was sent to Hendon in August or September 1928 , stripped right down and rebuilt with flush sides , two and one reversible cushioned seats inside and a number of other improvements . |
| 7 | Her father 's stern presence had prevented such scenes of gay ebullience , but the weary harvesters had always been welcomed with heartfelt gratitude and hospitality into her mother 's kitchen , where the tables groaned with an array of fare equally good as that now placed before the workers of Thorsbury . |
| 8 | If the river had still been working with any serious use of its productive capacity , this presentation of delightful monuments would not have been possible . |
| 9 | The five long-range cruise Londons had also been fitted with three-blade metal propellers with spinners , and by the end of 1938 these were standard equipment . |
| 10 | Wordsworth had also been experimenting with blank verse , and with the example of Coleridge 's Frost at Midnight before him , was able to reproduce ‘ the movement of the mind ’ in Tintern Abbey . |
| 11 | A police spokesman said Blandford had also been charged with four offences of making off without payment to taxi drivers for amounts ranging between £11 and £70 . |
| 12 | UN officials had reportedly been negotiating with Somali clan leaders to obtain approval for the troops ' dispatch . |
| 13 | The first limited-overs international , between Australia and England , had taken place only two years earlier , and the Prudential Trophy had then been introduced with great success in 1972 . |
| 14 | The pool of enriched BL-29 polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) products was used as a probe to hybridize to filters of the cosmid clones that had previously been isolated with YAC clone y178–3 . |
| 15 | This scheme — which was widely adopted by colonial administrations right across the continent — killed two birds with one stone : it both raised money and it produced a large labour force which had previously been occupied with growing food for their families . |
| 16 | Except for eight patients who had never been treated with antisecretory drugs at the time of the study , the remainder took part in a prospective follow up protocol with estimation of several parameters , at each visit ( every 6–12 months ) . |
| 17 | Premonition , who had never been seen with any chance in the Derby , won the 1953 St Leger . |
| 18 | He had never been charged with any criminal offence . |
| 19 | She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity . |
| 20 | Pat Yot had never been entrusted with such responsibility before but she had become a friend of the family ; to Bernard and Laura loyalty and energy mattered far more than experience . |
| 21 | While emphasizing that he was a health expert rather than an engineer , Professor McDonald was most reassuring , citing Canadian evidence which he claimed showed that asbestosis and lung cancer had never been associated with environmental exposure to asbestos in the general community and were in fact confined to workers in the industry . |