Example sentences of "[adv] had been [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The single women who hitherto had been considered a good influence on the girls were relegated to obscurity whilst the married heterosexual women were left to emerge as the ( acceptable and healthy ) role models . |
| 2 | A standard rumour was that someone the story-teller knew personally had been hitching a lift one dark night . |
| 3 | On the back seat … a fourteen-year-old boy from Milton Keynes , who just the day before had been given a supervision order after being convicted for burglary , armed robbery and car theft . |
| 4 | His aspiration then had been to inject a " Schopenhauerian seriousness " into his subject , and the ideal had never been abandoned . |
| 5 | So , Mavis at least had been getting a good earful . |
| 6 | We have all heard the stories of season ticket holders being found to stand for a match because someone else had been allocated a ticket for that seat . |
| 7 | She said that apart from MacQuillan and Barron she did not know who else had been allowed a complete list . |
| 8 | Like Graham and Sabrina he too had been left a holdall , containing a Geiger-Muller counter and his favourite handgun , a Browning Mk2 , in a locker at the main railway station where he had spent three hours studiously checking the invoices for all the freight loaded at the goods yard over the past ten days . |