Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [be] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Crawford added more than 600 illegal nets had been seized this year . |
| 2 | Following upon the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , a whole succession of English bishops had been publishing this legislation and adding to it their own diocesan statutes ; Pecham himself in 1281 drew upon the legislation of two archbishops — Langton ( 1222 ) and Boniface ( 1261 ) — and two papal legates — Otto ( 1237 ) and Ottobuono ( 1268 ) . |
| 3 | Me and all my friends had been having this really great scuttle . |
| 4 | The splendid and spirited pictures in the early printed herbals had been done this way , but as increasingly detailed and accurate illustrations were demanded , plates etched or engraved on copper became the norm . |
| 5 | Seaside entrepreneurs had been feeding this appetite , building this market , for several generations already . |
| 6 | 150 enquiries had been made this year , and potential students are now seeking funding . |
| 7 | The West Germans had been using this technique to stimulate postwar rebuilding since the 1950s , and the Department of the Environment clearly saw some parallels . |