Example sentences of "had [been] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Porter had been raised in a children 's home from the time he was two years old . |
| 2 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
| 3 | On the way to Eric 's first hiding place there had been an uncomfortable few minutes when the doctor 's car , in spite of its prominently displayed red cross , had been stopped by a carabinieri patrol . |
| 4 | He was appalled at the thought of turning into a pub at five-thirty for a quiet drink and finding that it had been converted into a Poets ' Pub , ‘ reverberating , like an African village , with the roll of ‘ Drake 's Drum . ’ . |
| 5 | It 's thought that the fire had been caused by a welders spark . |
| 6 | A central employers ' body in Austria was similarly formed to resist working-class agitation after the ground had been prepared by a manufacturers ' strike indemnity association . |
| 7 | He had been caught in a women 's magazine praising Mrs Thatcher . |
| 8 | The accident happened after a stolen red rover car accelerated away into King edwards avenue , when it 's occupants realised they had been spotted by a police patrol . |
| 9 | Before the Christmas break , we fitted in two more FIS downhills at Altenmarkt , on a course which had been used for a women 's world cup . |
| 10 | A community leader had to be removed from the area under police escort when it was alleged that she had been used as a police informer . |
| 11 | ONE of the guns found in West Belfast recently had been stolen from a police inspector in 1988 . |
| 12 | Chief Insp Malcolm Fordy confirmed that Alan Jackson , of The Bank , had been accused of a firearms offence , but police had been unable to serve a summons on him . |
| 13 | Since early 1919 , agitation against Britain 's support for the various anti-Soviet armies in Russia had been co-ordinated by a Hands Off Russia Committee run by the far left , but supported by UDC intellectuals , Quakers and many Liberals . |