Example sentences of "it had been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her grey hair had a dusty look , as though it had been powdered like a flunkey 's wig . |
| 2 | It had been written by a Syrian monk around 500 ad with the idea that contemplative monks were most like the highest orders of angels , closest to the Godhead in heaven . |
| 3 | A World Bank spokesman responded to the leak by denying that the memo in any way represented Bank policy , and adding that it had been written in a deliberately ironic tone in order to provoke internal debate within the organization . |
| 4 | It looked like it had been built as a rag trade sweatshop at the turn of the century and was sandwiched between a musical equipment shop and The Tin Pan Alley Club — which was a notorious music biz drinking den . |
| 5 | It had been built on a piece of glebe land behind the church , with a narrow drive running up beside the churchyard wall , separating it from the lane , isolating it from other houses . |
| 6 | The cottage itself was not exactly pretty : red-brick and foursquare , it had been built for a farm labourer and his family in the middle of the last century . |
| 7 | I do not suppose that in every case it would be worth the trouble that would be caused to the taxing authorities if they were to inquire into every deposit account and find if the interest had been increased , unless it had been increased by a large amount . |
| 8 | By the end of October this had resulted in a 20 per cent devaluation of the lempira against the US dollar , to which it had been tied at a fixed exchange rate since October 1989 . |
| 9 | It had been tossed into a bed of nettles against the wall of the churchyard . |
| 10 | The latter manifests itself as smooth , waxy blobs on fins and skin , making the fish look as though it had been swimming under a dripping candle . |
| 11 | Nor are all assessments entirely reliable : Brooke Priory in Rutland owned goods valued at £52 and had no serious debts when it was dissolved in 1536 yet fourteen years earlier it had been assessed at a mere £13 6s 8d . |
| 12 | It looked like it had been grown in a tropical rain forest . |
| 13 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 14 | A second inscription on the opposite side reveals that it had been given as a wedding present to the employer himself in 1838 . |
| 15 | Over the past year she had had various painful illnesses and eventually it had been diagnosed as a recurrence of cancer . |
| 16 | It had been planned as a separate men 's and women 's race , with the latter being sent off 20 minutes earlier , but only Dorre managed to stick to the plan , winning in 2hr 29min 38sec . |
| 17 | It had been turned into a temporary hospital . |
| 18 | She seemed to have completely forgotten her rage , or perhaps it had been channelled into a more dangerous , calculating form , thought Isabel in dread . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that it would not be the first inspector 's decision that took some time to see the light of day once it had been referred to a Department . |
| 20 | The covers were very worn , as if it had been travelled about a good deal , and on the fly leaf was written ‘ Journal 1841 ’ and then , in a different coloured ink , ‘ And 1842 ’ and then , below that , carefully , ‘ Emily Brent ’ . |
| 21 | It had been made by a famous couturier . |
| 22 | It had been made by a galactically known artist — an ancient , smelly and mostly blind human living on a renovated asteroid near the Home System where Old Earth still spins . |
| 23 | Her tutored eye saw that it had been made by a skilled seamstress , the tight , low-cut bodice erupting in a flurry of lace at the breast , the equally tight sleeves stiff with fake pearls and silver thread which formed the same flower design that was on the over-skirt . |
| 24 | he pointed out that it had been made by a woman who met life unafraid : ‘ Georgia O'Keeffe has had her feet scorched in the laval effusiveness of terrible experience ; she has walked on fire and listened to the hissing vapours round her person … |
| 25 | By the late 1930s it had been converted to a dwelling and remains so to this day . |
| 26 | He was appalled at the thought of turning into a pub at five-thirty for a quiet drink and finding that it had been converted into a Poets ' Pub , ‘ reverberating , like an African village , with the roll of ‘ Drake 's Drum . ’ . |
| 27 | Normally the building was the repair shop and garage for thirty AMX-10 battle tanks , but for this evening it had been converted into a temporary church with the aid of some camouflage nets , 300 chairs and a platform where a nativity play would be staged , and from which the Priest would read out the lesson . |
| 28 | The house in California — it was in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles , I think — looked as if it had been flung by a giant hand against the side of a hill and had stuck . |
| 29 | Nonetheless the rebels immediately announced their rejection of the new Constitution on the grounds that it had been adopted by a National Assembly which the MNR considered invalid . |
| 30 | It had been followed by a motion from Bruce Kent , chair of CND , to reduce Britain 's defence spending to the European average of Nato countries . |