Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] been [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Von Stein had been checking the wall clock in the laboratory then looking back at his notes for some time . |
| 2 | Mitra had been considered the leading rival to Ramos for Aquino 's endorsement . |
| 3 | Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children . |
| 4 | Britta had been watching the other woman — the one the Doctor called Benny — when the screens had come on . |
| 5 | Lucy had been reading The Saint from her father 's shelves when all of the other girls had their noses in Black Beauty . |
| 6 | John Rodwell , a specialist inspector from the Health and Safety Executive , said it appeared Mr Eaton had been using the burning torch to cut at the edge of the slot at one end of the pipe trying to open it and hot gases could have caused it to become dislodged and fall . |
| 7 | I read a short news item in which it was announced that Justine had been hanged the previous Saturday , the 24th , after several postponements of the event . |
| 8 | Mr Hirst added that Hilton had been discussing the possibility of moving into India and had already evaluated properties in Delhi and Bombay with the aim of a management contract with a small amount of equity . |
| 9 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 10 | Yassir Arafat and Kemal Jumblatt had been summoned the previous winter to Damascus , where they told Assad that they were winning the war and wished to move all the way into the Christian heartland . |
| 11 | Forestry interests and landowners in Scotland had been lobbying the Scottish Office to draw the teeth of the NCC because it had been too successful in defending the uplands from conifers . |
| 12 | For some years , the Purnells had been using the River Frome , the lower stretch of which had previously been dredged and cleared by Richard Owen Cambridge of Whitminster , to move coal and iron to and from the Severn to their mills at Framilode and Fromebridge . |
| 13 | Officials in Washington had been sounding the warning for over four years , noting that Guatemala is a trans-shipment point for Colombian cocaine and heroin heading north to the United States and Mexico . |
| 14 | Eva had been born the year of the Wall Street crash . |
| 15 | For example , by the time the Mekong had been drained the excavations were comparable to the construction of the Panama canal and in the sixty years before the Second World War there were 4½ m. acres of new land brought into cultivation and correspondingly prodigious increases in the exports of rice . |
| 16 | Barnes had been given the bird for an earlier kicking failure but he converted that try with such a fine kick that he felt entitled to make an equalising gesture to the crowd . |
| 17 | Damned creatures — Harold had been leaving the landing window open again . |
| 18 | Omagh boss Paul Kee had been chasing the tall Limerick central defender for more than a fortnight . |
| 19 | Malekith had been shown the secret trade routes of the Dwarfs during his period as Bel Shanaar 's ambassador , and he now used that knowledge to his own benefit . |
| 20 | Werewolf had been reading the owner 's handbook of Patterson 's BMW and experimenting with the passenger seat , having achieved what seemed like a dozen different positions before we got south of the river . |
| 21 | This was the one question Robert had been hoping the headmaster would not ask him . |
| 22 | It was interesting to note that in each of his previous six lives , which ranged from the fifteenth century to the late 1890s , Martin had been given the opportunity to be a ‘ teacher ’ . |
| 23 | Louise Taylor , the girl in the picture that Duncan had been shown the night before , was now dressed in an ill-fitting cheap Russian dress . |
| 24 | Even though he was still only sixteen , Wayne had been driving the yard 's vehicles around the quiet back roads in the off-season for the past two years . |
| 25 | Carrie had been minding the shop . |
| 26 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 27 | One of those gentry was Viscount Fauconberg , who had married Mary , the third daughter of Oliver Cromwell , in the same year as Cromwell had been offered the crown ( 1657 ) and they occupied Sutton Court , a mansion in the Little Sutton area , south of Turnham Green . |
| 28 | Mr Finkelstein had been given the contract to paint the interior of the convent . |
| 29 | Earlier , on Oct. 5 , Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi had been appointed the first woman member of the Supreme Court . |
| 30 | She , her husband and Byron had been discussing the principal of life and wondered if a living thing could be re-animated before Shelley had the idea of writing a book on this theme . |