Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A plaque had been hung on the gates : ‘ Fierce Dog — Beware ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave . |
| 7 | One had to forget — because one could not live with the thought — that this graceful , fragile , tender young woman with those eyes , that smile ( those gardens and snows in the background ) had been brought in a cattle car to an extermination camp and killed by an injection of phenol into the heart , into the gentle heart that one had heard beating under one 's lips in the dusk of the past . |