Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 2 | One of the Quorn had been discovered in a very loose-box with a girl from the Cotswold and dropped from his team . |
| 3 | After their visit custodians noticed that a sketchbook ‘ had been mutilated in a very clumsy manner , by the abstraction of several leaves containing an unknown number of sketches or drawings . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Goldring said Miss Lowe had been injected with a very large amount of insulin . |
| 5 | The results , announced a few days later , made it clear that the proposition had been carried by a very large majority . |
| 6 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 7 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
| 8 | Shelley was beginning to see that she had been put in a very special place of importance in Miguel 's confidence . |