Example sentences of "had been [verb] during the night " in BNC.
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| 1 | Communications were no doubt temporarily dislocated : our jam-packed train had been halted during the night owing to an air raid in the region . |
| 2 | Neither of them mentioned anything that had been said during the night ; they just agreed to head back to civilisation and not to mix whisky and cannabis like that again . |
| 3 | Information had been received during the night that a large party of Dragoons , commanded by the infamous Graham of Claverhouse , were in pursuit of them and had spent the night at Strathaven . |
| 4 | On 23 April the Allies reached the Po north of Bologna , which had been liberated during the night of 21–2 April . |
| 5 | Ziba 's 35-year-old brother , Meho , who worked at the dairy and fought with the Sarajevo defence force , had been killed during the night in a skirmish a few blocks away . |
| 6 | Although it was summer a fire burned in the great stone hearth — embers which were all that were left of logs which had been burned during the night to repel the damp which always crept out of the stone walls . |
| 7 | A sudden volley of shots broke out , the sound no longer muffled by windows , all of which had been shattered during the night . |