Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recollections of those who worked with him in the war years show a striking convergence : volunteers were won over instantly by the self-assured prophetic tone in which he discussed the war and by his knack of making them feel that they had been singled out to receive a confidence . |
| 2 | By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit . |
| 3 | Harpenden police confirmed that a unit had been called out to resolve a dispute between Andy Linighan and a taxi driver . |
| 4 | Fortunately the patrol recognized the doctor and my father , and after learning that the doctor had been called out to visit a seriously ill patient , the men saluted and disappeared into the darkness . |
| 5 | As we shall discuss later , David Norman , head of Russell Reynolds in 1980 , was responsible — helped by international teamwork — for finding Sir Ian McGregor for British Steel , the first time in Britain that headhunters had been called in to find a new boss for a nationalised industry . |
| 6 | The congress had been called specifically to resolve a crisis evident since November 1989 concerning factional splits over the independence question . |
| 7 | Under a slab of rock which lay propped at an angle the earth had been scraped away to make a shallow burrow and lying in it , curled up comfortably on his side like a sleeping dormouse was a boy . |
| 8 | I had been saving up to buy a cooker and fridge and Brian 's mum and dad gave us some of the furniture . |
| 9 | The street shelter had been hit and Ruby had been dug out to see a crater where her house had been and fires burning fiercely everywhere she looked . |
| 10 | The walls were covered in oatmeal-covered sackcloth , and in the centre two heavy tables had been pushed together to form a single one that looked absurdly big for the eight tweed-covered office chairs around it . |
| 11 | The litter on the kitchen table had been pushed back to leave a clear corner on which a cloth , clean but creased , had been laid , and on it were two unmatching plates and two cups which bore no relation in design or size , to their saucers . |
| 12 | The bark had been stripped away leaving a bright damp patch . |
| 13 | There were cigarette burns on the carpet , and here and there the brown of the walls had been rubbed away to reveal a pinkish surface beneath . |
| 14 | Sand had been shipped in to form a deeper and wider beach , to accommodate up to two hundred people . |
| 15 | In a broadcast on Aug. 3 the RCC stated that plans had been drawn up to begin a withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait on Aug. 5 . |
| 16 | The courts had been set up to administer a new penal code , unveiled on Sept. 7 , in which traditional written trials were to be replaced by public oral trials for criminal cases . |