Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it had been fixed for days in its usual place and she was sure they would make for that . |
| 2 | In the March 1991 legislative elections Tahoeraa Huiraatira — the opposition party led by Flosse which had been ousted from government in December 1987 , after controlling the territory 's government since March 1982 — captured 18 of the 41 seats in the Territorial Assembly . |
| 3 | Claus Toksvig , then a Danish broadcaster based in London , had been reporting on unemployment in Britain . |
| 4 | Frank Reed , the US director of the Lebanese International College who had been kidnapped in Beirut in September 1986 [ see p. 35023 ] , was released into Syrian custody in West Beirut on April 30 . |
| 5 | ( A Challen piano had been presented for use in the church in 1976 . ) |
| 6 | For some years attempts had been made to prohibit the sale of firearms and a Pistols Bill had been presented to Parliament in 1893 . |
| 7 | The limit in respect of advice in relation to undefended divorce proceedings had been raised to £45 in April 1977 when legal aid ceased to be available for such proceedings and that figure was subsequently raised to £55 in 1979 , £75 in 1981 and £90 in 1985 . |
| 8 | The senior component of what became The East Surrey Regiment under the 1881 Cardwell Reforms had been raised in Huntingdonshire in 1702 as The 31st Regiment of Foot . |
| 9 | The Polish Republic was proclaimed at the end of December 1989 , thus restoring the formal name which had been adopted after independence in 1918 but replaced by the name Polish People 's Republic in 1947 . |
| 10 | It seems most likely , however , that it was a word like ‘ Teddy Boy ’ or ‘ Mod ’ or ‘ Skinhead ’ which , coming out of the popular culture of working-class London , had been adopted by youths in some localities in order to describe themselves and what they took for their common identity . |
| 11 | Adenauer was also pleased that soon afterwards , in October 1955 , the people of the coal-rich Saar , which had been separated from Germany in 1946 ( at French insistence ) , rejected French plans for their future . |
| 12 | De Gaulle 's third priority in 1958 was to use the authority that he had been granted by parliament in early June to undertake the essential work of renewal . |
| 13 | He was reported to have said that the killing was ordered from prison by a Jihad leader Sawfat Abdel Ghani , who had been convicted of involvement in the killing of al-Mahgoub . |
| 14 | There he read out a cablegram that had been sent to MCC in London . |
| 15 | On April 27 , 1990 , Norway and Israel signed a draft agreement providing for the return of 10.5 tonnes of heavy water ( deuterium oxide , used to cool nuclear reactors ) to Norway , half the amount which had been sent to Israel in 1959 . |
| 16 | Both the latter films were made by Walter Booth for Charles Urban , an American who had been sent to Britain in order to look after Edison 's interests , then set up on his own as a distributor and exporter of French and American films . |
| 17 | Little Carl Mozart , then seven-years-old , had been sent to school in Perchtholdsdorf , a suburb of Vienna , and Mozart drove out on 13 October to collect him and take him and his grandmother Weber to see a performance of The Magic Flute . |
| 18 | Once , a message had been sent to Ford in Hollywood , entreating aid for the Navahos after a hard winter , and the director had found a Western script to make in Monument Valley simply to bring some money to the tribe . |
| 19 | The 50 unarmed UN military observers who had been sent to Mogadishu in July remained in the country , although on Aug. 6 they were reported still to be unable to leave their compound due problems of transport . |
| 20 | The Raasay Ironstone which had been discovered by Woodward in 1893 was assessed and as a result was worked by German prisoners of war . |
| 21 | His arrest was part of a longstanding FBI investigation ; four of the charges on which he was indicted dated back to December 1988 when he had been discovered by police in a hotel room with a convicted drug dealer , Charles Lewis . |
| 22 | Women 's Aid and the Domestic Violence Working Group — a body composed of those encountering the results of domestic violence — had been calling for clarification in the law since the decision . |
| 23 | On Feb. 21 Zhelev visited the grave at Whitchurch Canonicorum in Dorset of Georgi Markov , the Bulgarian dissident writer who had been assassinated in London in 1978 by the Bulgarian secret police by means a poisoned umbrella tip [ see p. 32997 ] . |
| 24 | Azhar had been sentenced to death in 1982 for his part in the 1981 hijacking by IIRC guerrillas of a domestic airliner to Thailand [ see pp. 32256-57 ] . |
| 25 | Although Jiang had been sentenced to death in 1981 for " counter-revolutionary crimes " [ see pp. 30833-36 ] , her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1983 [ see p. 32505 ] . |
| 26 | He had been sentenced to death in March by a Palestinian military tribunal sitting in Sana'a , Yemen . |
| 27 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 28 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 29 | Facing his first annual meeting as IBM Corp 's chairman and chief executive , Louis Gerstner did not mince words , telling the Tampa assembly that the company 's very survival had been called into question in the past year , but promised that although the company 's reputation was temporarily tarnished , it will remain strong thanks to its worldwide base — ‘ It would be a great mistake for naysayers to underestimate IBM , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 30 | There was the wife of a Communist who had been stabbed to death in Oslo . |