Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adv] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim had been blown out of this room as though he had never been . |
| 2 | Other innovations were also approached with circumspection by the BEA headquarters design engineers , even though significant experience of them had been gained both in this country and abroad . |
| 3 | He had had only one more year to serve before he could have retired into civilian life , and both he and Isobel had been looking forward to this . |
| 4 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 5 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 6 | Written application had been made in advance , and , except for four theses on loan , all had been collected together for this study either within the thesis area or in the thesis collection area of the Stack , to which access was permitted on this occasion . |
| 7 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 8 | Four big slabs of grey-green stone formed the opening of a drain culvert beside the post , and the bicycle had been placed squarely across this . |
| 9 | If so , then it was a case of sweet revenge for Whittingham , who had been shot down by this unit over England during 1940 ! |
| 10 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
| 11 | Some professional groups , especially general practitioners , felt that they had been left out of this planning process . |
| 12 | Somebody asked , a bit hesitantly , how you would define the Dark Ireland , and Dorrainge , who felt he had been left out of this conversation for too long , said it was rather difficult . |
| 13 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 14 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 15 | A complete set of drills had been worked out by this time with , for example , five phases in recovering a swimmer after his recce . |
| 16 | They said that no English forward scouts had been reported anywhere in this vicinity ; nor had the Earl made any direct contact with them . |
| 17 | He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him . |
| 18 | Zeinab had been brought up in this culture . |
| 19 | The assumption here is that if the pound had been devalued earlier on this would have made it possible to adhere to the growth path of the plan , but in the light of the comments made above this view is open to doubt : it gives the plan more credibility than it merited . |