Example sentences of "[pron] had been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was relieved for myself , as I had been dreading driving again so soon . |
| 2 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 3 | A telephone call to establish whether I had been made redundant or , if not , to inform me of the administrative delay , would have been far more appropriate , and possibly cheaper , than a typed letter announcing the uncleared cheque and the administrative charge . |
| 4 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 5 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 6 | Suppose that in my wife 's absence I had been knocked unconscious by a burglar . |
| 7 | The formal support came from the Signet Office , which had been given definite shape in the fifteenth century . |
| 8 | The resolution , which had been given provisional approval on Tuesday night , declared the Congress 's support for fundamental economic reform and pledged there would not be a return to the Communist administrative-command system . |
| 9 | A United States bill prolonging the provisions of the US aid and development programme known as the Caribbean Basin Initiative ( CBI ) which had been given legislative expression in the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act of 1983 [ see pp. 31565-71 ; 32622 ; 33849-50 ] was passed by President Bush on Aug. 20 , 1990 . |
| 10 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 11 | Also , the Christ Church Vicarage , Which was situated on the corner of Sutton Lane and Heathfield Gardens , opposite Fromow 's Corner on the south-west Corner of Turnham Green , was demolished , the Vicar moving to a new Vicarage which had been built close by , in Wellesley Road . |
| 12 | The President ushered his party into seats which had been kept vacant in the top bench and then he turned to address the community . |
| 13 | The rediscovery of rich veins of vernacular literature , which had been kept alive in the oral traditions of the peasants during centuries of domination by alien cultures , gave a feeling of self-confidence to the national movements which were striving for independence . |
| 14 | Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 15 | This focus on reconstruction put the CFLN in step with the resistance movements and the CNR , which had been discussing postwar renewal with increasing urgency ever since the American landings in North Africa . |
| 16 | A second soldier burst through the door which had been blown open and fired his automatic rifle at the kitchen table , its powerful round of bullets knocking the head off the dummy planted in the chair . |
| 17 | Again , it was clear that the ministers and their parliamentary colleagues , many of whom in any case disliked the scheme , would not pass into legislation any bill which had been declared contrary to church teaching by the bishops . |
| 18 | The court ruled that a 101-year-old treaty with the USA could be used instead of a 1979 treaty which had been declared unconstitutional in June 1987 [ see p. 35756 ] . |
| 19 | On top of a cavity in the stone in which had been placed contemporary records and coins was placed a plate with the inscription : |
| 20 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |
| 21 | The sheer size of the task in fact prompted the EC Commission to doubt whether the traditional approach to the standards problem , which had been adopted prior to the SEA , was any longer appropriate . |
| 22 | A system with historic origins which had been made democratic in the nineteenth century was reorganized on a two-tier basis after a series of reports . |
| 23 | The ruling Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) suffered a humiliating by-election defeat on April 11 in Wills , an inner-city constituency in Melbourne , which had been made vacant by the retirement of former ALP federal leader and Prime Minister Bob Hawke . |
| 24 | This was in 1976 , when the Expenditure Committee of the House of Commons was refused access to a programme analysis and review ( PAR ) study on educational planning which had been made available to the organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and referred to at length in one of their publications . |
| 25 | Much of his work was on pottery already in museum collections , or as a pottery assistant to Bushe-Fox , but at Templebrough , he was director of the excavations which had been made necessary by the extension of the large steel works at the end of the Great War . |
| 26 | Even English seaside resorts , which had been made popular through royal patronage , saw relatively few visitors . |
| 27 | First , whether in or out , we would bear the cost of supporting the economies which had been made non-viable by the single currency . |
| 28 | Mr Beckenham remained only the one night at Merchiston Lodge , sleeping in the room next to Araminta 's , which had been made ready for him . |
| 29 | They crossed the jetty to a large wooden door , which had been propped open with a three-legged stool . |
| 30 | A bird of prey which had been flying loose since the weekend is back with its owner . |