Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was announced on state radio on Jan. 4 that Goma-Foutou , in his capacity as Territorial Administration Minister , had banned state radio journalists from broadcasting news about opposition parties ; these had been legalized just over a week earlier . |
| 2 | W w where they w w once when they 'd been installed or was it thought that it a mistake had been made in obviously a lot of cash had been spent on them but erm , was it considered a mis a waste of money or ? |
| 3 | With 20 : 20 vision , hindsight is very easy , but if only some of the things that are now happening at Asfordby had been accepted more readily a few years ago , we might well have been having a very different debate today . |
| 4 | It was partly with the new saw table and also he wanted to try and get more er sellable saleable product out of the slate , cos previously we had been throwing away quite a bit or giving it to and I think it really started as a family argument between him and his brother . |
| 5 | Everything had been going swimmingly only a moment before . |
| 6 | But although she had been standing there just a moment before , there was no sign of Izzie . |