Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the Williams incident , a caller giving a false name and claiming to be from brokers Hoare Govett rang the Guardian and other newspapers with a story earlier this week claiming that a stake of over 3 per cent had been built secretly by the Barclay brothers . |
| 32 | This village had been built solely for the duration of the festival , for the thousands of funeral guests who were expected to arrive on foot from the far corners of the kingdom . |
| 33 | It had been built earlier in the century , and by 1794 was the home of Henry Poole 's uncle , Thomas Poole the elder , an ‘ irritable , arbitrary old man ’ whose bad temper owed only a little to his sufferings from the gout . |
| 34 | Interestingly , the two semicircular towers had been built out over the filled ditch of the earlier rampart , as had the semioctagonal external tower at the north-west corner . |
| 35 | The station resembled the early Earth Pioneer space stations which had been built outwards from the home planet to the stars . |
| 36 | It replaced three older small stations which had been built there in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 37 | The glass cone at Lemington , although incomplete , is one of few such survivals in Britain , and particularly in the region where the Venerable Bede tells us that French glassmakers were brought over to teach the ‘ English nation their handicraft ’ , which had been lost here after the departure of the Romans . |
| 38 | Wiles , it was hoped , would restore the intended seriousness to Doctor Who , which he felt had been lost somewhat in the wake of the Daleks ' success . |
| 39 | Meredith endeavoured to explain that the play had been written long before the carnage of the First World War , let alone the Second . |
| 40 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 41 | Lying across the East-West divide , the Germans began to feel they had a special understanding of world peace , as well as that they had been singled out by the ‘ Great Powers ’ as Europe 's potential war playground . |
| 42 | I put the phone down , wondering how many people had been listening in on the extensions , and went back into my room . |
| 43 | Government officials said that the events had been planned jointly by the Reform the Armed Forces Movement ( RAM ) , an organization of military officers , and supporters of former President Marcos . |
| 44 | However , a cautionary note had been sounded right at the beginning of the whole exercise : |
| 45 | An earlier attempt had been withdrawn immediately after the 19 October 1987 Wall Street crash . |
| 46 | In 1391 the castle of St Briavels and the Forest of Dean were given to Thomas , Duke of Gloucester to hold in tail male , and in 1398 the forest of Rutland to Edward , Duke of Albermarle : by 1405 the Somerset forests of Neroche , Exmoor , Mendip and the park of North Petherton had been granted away to the Earl of March . |
| 47 | At the far end was a small rocky hillock as if huge boulders had been jammed together by the hand of some mythical giant . |
| 48 | Shards of glass were still falling 12 hours after the blast and computers had been blown on to the pavement . |
| 49 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 50 | His dog tags had been blown off in the blast and the head wound had severely damaged his memory so that no one had any idea of his identity . |
| 51 | It was wonderful to see how the great court filled , as though the word of her return in triumph had been blown in on the wind . |
| 52 | Now he never spoke of it-except once when they were passing , and the smell of it had been blown down on the wind . |
| 53 | His fascination with anything to do with space and spaceflight bordered upon obsession and he had been horrified when The New Hope had been blown out of the sky by the Seven . |
| 54 | Corbett reckoned horses had been stabled there within the last two or three months . |
| 55 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 56 | The dual design had been influenced greatly by the negative British attitude , with the pro-Europeans reluctantly compromising as much as possible in order to ensure British membership . |
| 57 | A prelude to 1811 – 12 had been played out in the woollen districts of Wiltshire between 1799 and 1802 . |
| 58 | The deputy was a Socialist , he had been speaking out against the old work conditions that were being reimposed . |
| 59 | And I already had Jackie because Jackie had been speaking earlier on the tapes . |
| 60 | A provincial assembly of the clergy , to which proctors came in greater numbers than to parliament and which all abbots and priors were entitled to attend , was increasingly the body through which the clergy were taxed ; gradually the name of convocation , which had been applied haphazardly from the early twelfth century to a variety of ecclesiastical gatherings , was reserved for this assembly . |