Example sentences of "had [been] [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas had been granted only a weekend pass . |
| 2 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |
| 3 | It had been announced only a month ago that she was expecting her first child and would probably be leaving after the spring term . |
| 4 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 5 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 6 | Smith first came across the Academy 's prize problem ( Box B ) when browsing through their Comptes Rendus in February 1882 , though the problem had been posed almost a year earlier . |
| 7 | Several had been taken on a yacht at sea . |
| 8 | In an interview with the Guardian when his dummy had been published almost a year previously , he had specifically said the paper ‘ would not pay £40,000 wages ’ . |
| 9 | Panic set in — a teenage boy who had appeared in a film for US TV had been murdered just a couple of months before . |
| 10 | But after the Salzburg concert I had been offered only a kind of ‘ trial ’ , just one performance of someone else 's production . |