Example sentences of "had been [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Travers and Mrs Patel had shown flair for public relations from the beginning ; and the beginning for them had been shortly after the famed conversation in Sainsbury 's , when they organised a summer procession in honour of family values in a South London borough particularly hard hit by both government spending cuts and feminists insisting that ‘ family values ’ were a euphemism for women doing the housework . |
| 2 | The occupational structure of the village was very different from what it had been just before the Civil War when the parish register entries had briefly given men 's occupations ; between 1636 and 1639 Thurmaston 's register noted 8 labourers , 5 shepherds , 3 husbandmen , 2 innkeepers , 2 masons , 2 male servants , a carpenter , a miller , 1 curate , a weaver , a tailor , a shearman , a spinner and a mole catcher . |
| 3 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 4 | By now , 1345 hours , the Colonel had been up with the leading Troops for more than because two hours , and as the short Arctic day was drawing to a close he ordered the withdrawal to begin . |
| 5 | The village of Uppercross in Persuasion ( 1818 ) , for example , ‘ had been completely in the old English style ’ , two houses only showing themselves to be superior to the dwellings of yeomen and labourers : the squire 's mansion with its high walls and great gates , and ‘ the compact , tight parsonage , enclosed in its own neat garden ’ . |
| 6 | Now she knew that Fernando was in contact with Maria Luisa and probably had been right from the off . |
| 7 | She knew that her presence and unwavering support was as important to the outcome as all the physical and psychological preparation that Lennox had been through in the past few months . |
| 8 | She had been away on a little holiday in Spain and knew nothing . |
| 9 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 10 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 11 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 12 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 13 | He had been neither to a great school nor to a university . |
| 14 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 15 | Further , Curtis had informed Grant that the word on the streets was that the recent outbreak of violence and killing had been all about a territorial dispute between rival Triad and Mafia gangs . |
| 16 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 17 | We tended to think of Sandy as a liability because he had been so over the past years . |
| 18 | Brutally suppressed by bluecoats led by Rope Thrower , known to whites as Kit Carson , in 1863 , they had been out of the major Indian Wars because the Reservation lands given to them were so arid and dreary that even the white man did n't want to kick them off to somewhere else . |
| 19 | She had been out with a young lawyer once , a bumptious and ambitious man , and a boring one . |
| 20 | Ewing had been abroad during the key years of the Catholic revival , did not share these concerns , and resented an incursion of Oxford Movement clergy from England . |
| 21 | The British emerged from their wars against Louis XIV in a calmer flame of mind than they had been in during the disturbed and excited seventeenth century . |
| 22 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 23 | The cheap attempt at humour had been too like a treacherous repudiation of Timmy whom he loved . |
| 24 | But he had been there at the right time , he had acted swiftly and effectively and she was alive . |
| 25 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 26 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |