Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adv] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His name had been leaked inadvertently in a press interview which I had given and someone had traced his whereabouts . |
| 2 | This was the first time in history that a trade union banner had been borne aloft in a great military and naval display . |
| 3 | 16–7- Duncan McGilvray , a Deacon , who had been seen publicly in a state of intoxication was ordered to be publicly rebuked . |
| 4 | This was carried out by Sachs ( 1967 ) and it compared recall of sentences which had just been heard with recall of sentences which had been heard earlier in a passage . |
| 5 | Last month the European Socialist group , the largest in the European Parliament , threatened to sack the entire commission because the charter had been watered down in a vain attempt to secure Mrs Thatcher 's backing for it at the Strasbourg summit . |
| 6 | Many of the players , as we have seen , had been wandering already in a nether world of two-dimensional heroes , villains , adventurers and fall-guys . |
| 7 | Her hair , snow white and abundant , had been topped off in a ragged uneven way by the home 's hairdresser . |
| 8 | Oh yes , Googol had been left safely in a locked room once ; and he had been taken by surprise … |
| 9 | George had been tried out in a variety of parts , but each time he stepped on the stage he would stand with his legs and arms splayed out and drone monotonously . |
| 10 | He mumbled that he was still in a state of shock and had been walking around in a dream all day . |
| 11 | The one person whom Kate had always seen as constant and good had been shown up in a dark light . |
| 12 | To my dismay , the whole entrance to Clonmacnoise had been concreted over in a multi-lane car park that was almost totally empty . |
| 13 | It reminded her of a film she had seen years before in which a cigarette had been stubbed out in a fried egg . |
| 14 | The car had been stolen earlier in a raid in Freelands then driven over 20 miles to the isolated village of Milcombe near Banbury . |
| 15 | The youth market , which had been held together in a fragile unity , fragmented : on the one hand into Teenybop , on the other into the Underground . |
| 16 | It was also found that while the aircraft was in service a modification to the door mechanism had been carried out in a way which did not comply with the appropriate service bulletin . |
| 17 | The Minister also said that the medical examination had been carried out in a sympathetic and professional manner . |
| 18 | Built during a period of architectural optimism , when it was assumed that technology would triumph , it had been laid out in a series of oblong paved courtyards , surrounded by long , low , concrete-faced buildings , remarkable solely for their brutalism . |
| 19 | Jittery swallows , which had been lined up in a row along the top of the gates , catapulted into the air . |
| 20 | Within half and hour , Curtis learned his man had been driven off in a green Cadillac by the unfortunate owner of the car , whom he had taken hostage at gun point . |
| 21 | He had been dropped there in a sack . |
| 22 | The steam boiler had been set up in a shed at the back of the offworlder 's house . |
| 23 | Low comfortable chairs had been set out in a square ; too comfortable for-some , because there was a distinct buzz of snoring from the other side of a rack of trade journals , broken only by the bats ' wing rustle of folding and refolding newspaper . |
| 24 | The second task was to stand on some planks of wood which had been set out in a hexagon . |
| 25 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 26 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 27 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 28 | Two evenings back Pete had found his front door open to the darkness , and the porch light on ; rain had been falling outside in a continuous silver curtain and in the sheltered area at the top of the steps , Alina 's shoes had lain discarded . |
| 29 | But more : Margaret had been brought up in a household where true magic had been corrupted for profit and was therefore rightly feared as dangerous . |
| 30 | Grace had been brought up in a very religious household and she maintained strict standards for herself but , she says , ‘ was not allowed to check or discipline John in any way ’ . |