Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adv] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agreement on the guiding principles of the Charter of Paris and on some of its institutions had been reached earlier at a meeting in New York of CSCE Foreign Ministers on Oct. 1-3 . |
| 2 | I well remember a young man who aroused special interest one weekend because he had been taken on at a place which had a certain reputation . |
| 3 | The emancipation of the serfs had been drawn up at a time when most of the tsar 's principal advisers belonged to the age of Nicholas I. Within a year of the promulgation of the statutes , most of the chief posts in the empire were held by people whose sympathy with the new social order was greater than that of the emancipators . |
| 4 | William Day had been working late at a nearby farm . |
| 5 | Jackson had been put up at a boarding house , to await the arrival of Herbert Chapman next morning . |