Example sentences of "had been [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 2 | That , in itself , was not unusual ; but for once he had been told nothing of the reason for the meeting . |
| 3 | As Burnett had been told nothing about the MI6 operation , he simply rejected Kotov 's complaint as a typical piece of Russian propaganda . |
| 4 | If he had been told nothing about the terms of his release , then probably it was Artai 's doing . |
| 5 | From the times of the original Glasgow Harbour at the Broomielaw in the 1660s , the atmosphere of the Clydeside had been acquiring something of the West Indies , the South China Sea , the coasts of Africa and India , and all the magic , terror and richness of the seven seas of the world . |