Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the images that had been in Patrick 's mind while he drove up to the Barbican the previous morning formed again in his imagination . |
| 2 | No they have n't , they 'd been bought a car that had been like , that it sort of been written off and rebuilt or something like that . |
| 3 | Two whaling nations that had been among the largest , the United States and Britain , gave up whaling , and others have recently given up or are showing signs of doing so . |
| 4 | Among the most prominent of Syrian political prisoners was Noureddin al-Atasi , who had immediately preceded Assad as President and had been in prison since 1970 . |
| 5 | First , Father Reynard had secretly admired Lady Eleanor and had been near the Galilee Gate the night she had died . |
| 6 | This should have been no problem as she was a swimming champion of the South London Schools and had been in excellent health . |
| 7 | And saved : The ice rink that had been on the skids . |
| 8 | And then Rufus was asleep , his head turned on to the muscle of his upper arm , the fingers that had been on Adam 's shoulder retracting as they relaxed . |
| 9 | But then she start putting my erm blouses on like , cos she probably seen somebody come in nice thinking oh dress up tomorrow and then I , in case he comes in and I used to think shit that had been in the wardrobe , alright I do n't wear them but I mean they 're still nice |
| 10 | It was a longing that had been in her for always . |
| 11 | Even more importantly , Maisie did n't like chicken , especially free-range , corn-fed , humanely killed chicken that had been through Jungian analysis . |
| 12 | Patrick had seen the chance to ask a question that had been on his mind a long time . |
| 13 | Scott LJ ( with whom Butler-Sloss and Purchas LJJ agreed ) said that the appeal raised a question that had been before the court on a number of occasions in the past 10 years . |
| 14 | He went into his bedroom , returned almost at once with the oil-lamp that had been on the table when we had dinner . |
| 15 | Lower School was opposite the Chapel and here , under the dark oaken beams and arches , I was taught in a classroom that had been in continuous use as such since 1443 . |
| 16 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 17 | Septimus , who was a philosopher by nature and had been in a French prison before , made the most of his breakfast in a way peculiarly his own . |
| 18 | Wheeler said he had been a member of the force for twelve and a half years and had been on duty on the Docks since last August . |
| 19 | The defendant had been a director of plaintiffs for 13 years and had been in charge of the development and sales of a certain type of heater . |
| 20 | The were taken by limousine through the streets of Manhattan , observing with awe the eight magnificent structures that had been on the market for many months and which no one had wanted to buy . |
| 21 | On one of the trials , Ray placed a popsock over the end of a pipe delivering water that had been through an Eradicator and , in 72 hours , collected a golf ball-sized piece of limescale from the mesh … in East Anglia , the water is so hard that it will give a kettle an internal fur coat in no time , and here was the proof . |
| 22 | Great efforts would be needed to restore the party to its strong position of 1914 and to carry on with the fundamental changes that had been under way then , but the war years had done no lasting damage . |
| 23 | But , when asked in 1947 to replace an old dirty power station that had been on the site since 1891 , he soon forgot such idealism and , like any architect , was glad to have the job . |
| 24 | Only then did it strike me that there was indeed a role that a further staff member could crucially play here ; that it was , in fact , this very shortage that had been at the heart of all my recent troubles . |
| 25 | The dunes that had been on the left were replaced by a sandstone ridge and the sand on that side of the road was now black . |
| 26 | Although the two firms are still expected to cement an agreement covering Hewlett-Packard taking a 20% stake in Taligent Inc , the Common Operating System Interface announcement is now likely to be toned down , with the participation of other firms that had been in the same swim , such as Santa Cruz Operation Inc and SunSoft Inc , looking increasingly unlikely by the day . |
| 27 | These limitation terms were incorporated in all contracts between seedsmen and farmers and had been for many years . |
| 28 | Virtually everybody there had been held on remand or had been to prison before , so knew how the prison ran . |
| 29 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 30 | Now , once again , the topic was timely as a substantial area of policy that had been within the ambit of the Royal Commission , but one which had not been pre-empted by Government intentions for legislation . |