Example sentences of "it had [been] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sheet had been spread out on the ground , and around it had been placed a square of long hard bolsters . |
| 2 | It had been operating a Ro-Ro service from inside the locks and undoubtedly was responsible for the major part of the heavy goods vehicle traffic . |
| 3 | It had been raised a year earlier at a residential conference for Wirral secondary heads with the sugestion that schools should attempt accreditation under BS 5750 . |
| 4 | " The Independent " argued that it could not in natural justice be bound by an order made against another newspaper , on different facts , and which it had been given no opportunity to oppose . |
| 5 | Newton was one of them , and in spite of public fears over a similar junction elsewhere , it had been given the go-ahead . |
| 6 | His charm , his little anecdotes , even this scene played in the velvet darkness — all of it had been to answer the challenge she 'd so foolishly set before him . |
| 7 | It is hard to say how directly the King reminded the Company that it was doing well because it had been granted a monopoly of the English market . |
| 8 | For 1992 , it had been renamed the Day of the Defenders of the [ unspecified ] Homeland . |
| 9 | As it had been made an exhibit at trial they were entitled to inspect the tape in the jury room , subject to the discretion of the trial judge to prevent e.g. an unedited version containing inadmissible material from being handed over . |
| 10 | It had been posted the day they left for Algeria . |
| 11 | It had been thought no money would be forthcoming , but the new grant will be from a different department within the SAC , it emerged yesterday . |
| 12 | The announcement came as no great surprise ; except in as much as it had been thought the family might hold back in the lifetime of Sir John . |
| 13 | The director of policy of the Consumers ' Association , Stephen Locke , said it had been pressing the Government to introduce the measures for some time . |
| 14 | With the Appeal Board clearing Durie it had been expected the caution would be expunged . |
| 15 | She walked on , wondering whose decision it had been to buy a retirement home in such an isolated spot . |
| 16 | Strange , how easy it had been to accept the harshness of the training depot and the lessons she had learned . |
| 17 | If it had been spinning a bit more , it would of kept on . |
| 18 | He did n't tell her how difficult it had been to withstand the pain they inflicted on him . |
| 19 | It had been held every year since I was five , and I had only missed it once , the year I was in Nigeria . |