Example sentences of "had been [verb] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Countess 's childhood , before the Revolution , and before Belgium had been liberated from Austrian rule by the French , women had been taught to glide along a floor , their feet hidden by wide skirts and their slippers barely leaving the polished boards . |
| 2 | Under new powers , also approved on June 26 , the Serbian Assembly had been empowered to take over the affairs of the Kosovo Assembly and of other official bodies , and to suspend troublemakers . |
| 3 | She had been tempted to cut out the photographs and keep them , but she had n't . |
| 4 | And a cinnamon and blue nuthatch had been seen creeping up the trunk of a tree towards its mud-patched nesting hole , giving one lad a splendid chance to try out his new birthday present telescope . |
| 5 | I had been trying to pick up a barman in a pub in Hammersmith . |
| 6 | Collecting up her leaflets , she made her way up to bed , and gave in to the little grin that had been trying to break out a few minutes before . |
| 7 | If it had been timed to go off an hour later , probably it had been timed to go off an hour later but something had gone wrong , the hotel dining room would have been full and the results of the explosion much worse . |
| 8 | If it had been timed to go off an hour later , probably it had been timed to go off an hour later but something had gone wrong , the hotel dining room would have been full and the results of the explosion much worse . |
| 9 | He had been expecting to sell quite a few additional copies of it to those customers of his who appreciated such things . |
| 10 | By 1978 , 1500 such villages had been created incorporating about a million people . |
| 11 | Two miners had been instructed to bring down an unsafe part of the roof which presented a danger to the miners . |
| 12 | We have met the terms of the loan , ’ Mr Cross said , answering widespread speculation that Mr Bond , whose commercial empire is troubled , had been forced to hand over the painting to Sotheby 's for resale . |
| 13 | And there was a new outpouring of rumours about Hitler 's health : that he was ill , mad , blind , had suffered a nervous breakdown , or that as a result of mental illness he had been forced to hand over the leadership of the State to the military , and had been shot . |
| 14 | She , after all , had been left holding up the universe over the parents , and in all probability , whatever strict injunctions he issued now , she would , by the time he rejoined her , have relieved him of the most dreadful of all the duties his office laid on him , and somehow , with sense , sedatives and sturdy , unpretending sympathy , have gone part-way towards reconciling the bereaved to their bereavement . |
| 15 | Benjamin Laird , chairman of Hallgarth 's governors , said several measures had been taken to weed out the culprits , but admitted : ‘ We will never wipe out the problem 100 per cent . |
| 16 | Gordon Bateman , who had been planning to set up an agency in Reading , Berkshire , said he had two meetings with Steen . |
| 17 | There were tracks in the cooled fat where chunks of bread had been used to mop up the tasty juices of the meal . |
| 18 | The hangar doors on the farthest building had been opened to bring out the helicopter . |
| 19 | The Supreme Court on July 17 ruled " unreasonable and illegal " the emergency regulations initiated by Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Sharon , which had been designed to speed up the building of accommodation for tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | Bruce Armitage , Grampian Enterprise 's director of training , stressed that the £100,000 grant had been designed to set up a framework in which other agencies could work . |
| 21 | One said that a man had been approached to carry out a contract killing on Freddie , but he refused because he liked him . |