Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [been] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tended to do it of late years by proxy , as it were : she was good — or had been before the advent of the Reverend Hereward Marr — at manning the tea-urn at the church social . |
| 2 | This is a parish in the counties of Argyll , Inverness-shire , Ross and Cromarty , Sutherland , Caithness and the northern islands where there was in 1886 , or had been in the previous 80 years , holdings of arable land with rights of common pasture . |
| 3 | We learned that there were still , or had been in the late 1950s , a fair number of working schooners in Nova Scotia . |
| 4 | Or had been in the right . |
| 5 | Certainly those who came for a meal with Dorothy Mellings — while Alice was there , with Jasper — tended to come in ones or twos , mostly women , perhaps needing Dorothy 's advice , or even to borrow money ; divorced friends — so many of the couples that had been to the Mellings 's in the good days had split up . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
| 8 | First of all , there was the problem that had been at the root of France 's defeat in 1940 — the decay of the republican state , which had been so powerfully symbolized by the Third Republic 's abdication to Pétain in July 1940 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Marie , sick and trembling , overwhelmed with fear and guilt at her own actions , was already kneeling down with a dustpan and brush , sweeping up the broken glass from the tomato-sauce bottle that had been on the table . |
| 11 | During the same month the Young Republicans barricaded themselves into a house in Harvey Street to resist the eviction of a family that had been on the housing list for eighteen years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Paddington Bear wallpaper that had been on the walls for years was mocking her . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He went into his bedroom , returned almost at once with the oil-lamp that had been on the table when we had dinner . |
| 16 | And saved : The ice rink that had been on the skids . |
| 17 | But now he was n't making excuses , stating facts that had been under the surface all the time . |
| 18 | that had been through the fire and they were taken out and you know whoever . |
| 19 | Nigel went along on his own with a nice little pair of mother-of-pearl binoculars that had been in the family for generations . |
| 20 | He pulled the woollen cap that had been in the pocket of his overalls further down over his close-cut hair . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One crucial element in this was the resumption of centre stage by a type of music that had been in the dominant culture throughout Punk rock — black disco music . |
| 23 | By the time the light was on , where was the man that had been in the bed ? |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was n't Caspar that had been after the lambs . |
| 29 | It had been the Jews , together with Prussian militarism , that had been behind the Russian Revolution . |
| 30 | The libretto , which had been lying in his drawer for years , had been written by a M. Frontenac , who had known Alain-Fournier personally , and had been under the spell of his novel since it first appeared in 1913 . |