Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was told this had been to drive off an attack by the dog pack . |
| 2 | The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came . |
| 3 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 4 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 5 | A little mirror had been hung on the wall of the dressing area . |
| 6 | The linoleum tiles in the middle area of the floor were rimmed by some new type of carpet , there was a false ceiling and false blinds had been hung on the walls . |
| 7 | She said how the old people 's sitting room had been livened up when a few pictures of old Barnsley had been hung on the walls . |
| 8 | A plaque had been hung on the gates : ‘ Fierce Dog — Beware ’ . |
| 9 | The company policy had been to speed up the line and the rate of production . |
| 10 | The Life of Johnson makes plain how Boswell had been staking out the ground since their early acquaintance , making notes immediately after each meeting of what he himself was eventually to ‘ consider the peculiar value ’ of the Life , ‘ that is , the quantity it contains of Johnson 's conversation ’ . |
| 11 | Those who had accepted the old beliefs about women — her slower sexual arousal , natural chastity and requirement for serious emotional involvement — were bound to ask themselves whether they had been led up the garden path . |
| 12 | Soon after , she recognized in a certain strain of feminist theory an approach to language which had much in common with the approach she herself had been developing over a number of years . |
| 13 | She had been riding along a road with a little girl and Clare 's small pony Kizzy on a leading rein . |
| 14 | In the letters Bush suggested compromise terms for the two issues which had been holding up an agreement on a conference , namely the question of UN representation and the nature of the conference itself . |
| 15 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 16 | Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them . |
| 17 | Molly had been laying out the lunch on the terrace . |
| 18 | Parole was not a new idea , having existed in parts of the United States since early in the twentieth century , and had been canvassed down the years . |
| 19 | When our mam died — our dad had been killed down the pit long before — he took me in and brought me up . |
| 20 | According to a statement received by the weekly Oiga , Salinas accepted responsibility for the coup attempt and declared that its aim had been to hand over the presidency to Máximo San Román Cáceres , Fujimori 's dismissed First Vice-President named " constitutional president " by the dissolved Congress [ see p. 38846 ] . |
| 21 | Frances had been walking along a pavement in Oxford when she was hit from behind . |
| 22 | But Coun. Nicholas Thorne-Wallis ( Lab ) , chairman , said that no final decision had been taken over the proposals and Coun. Mrs Rose Davison ( Lab ) called for more options to be considered by the council . |
| 23 | Several had been taken on a yacht at sea . |
| 24 | Even now , however , no decisions had been taken on the speed of emancipation or the form it should take . |
| 25 | He said more precise figures would not be available until decisions had been taken on the form of restoration . |
| 26 | After three centuries of decline , the first steps had been taken on the path to restoration . |
| 27 | The US authorities claimed that the decision to evacuate Peace Corps workers had been taken on the basis of general intelligence concerning NPA intentions , and that Swanson 's abduction had only become known after the decision had been made . |
| 28 | I was reading through back copies of MKM which I do quite often and started to read Help Line in the April '91 issue , when my husband ( who had been clearing out the attic ) came into the room with an old TV Times — Feb 1960 . |
| 29 | At the head of the parade was a blue banner bearing the words ‘ Civil Rights March ’ , which had been carried on the Coalisland — Dungannon march . |
| 30 | As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave . |