Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [adv] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Borg had only been at Meadow Park since late last season , when he was appointed following the dismissal of John Clements . |
| 2 | Pakistan had recently been under some pressure from the USA to formulate a fresh political initiative on Afghanistan . |
| 3 | We was in this railway station and Marie had just been to the dentist . |
| 4 | And when Jessamy had tried to speak to Julius at his office , Eleanor had always been on the other end of the phone , trotting out some barely plausible excuse why Julius could n't talk to her . |
| 5 | While she had been a slave to her newly awakened senses , Travis had always been in control . |
| 6 | The intention and the vow itself were no cynical charade , for Edward had already been on crusade and shared the piety and the military enthusiasm which impelled so many to the Holy Land . |
| 7 | As most of the leading American challengers arrived at the tough , par-70 lay-out to begin their preparation , Faldo had already been through a punishing schedule since Thursday . |
| 8 | Even now , after this short while , she found it hard to remember if Johnny had truly been with her or if it had been only a dream . |
| 9 | Dana had still been in the bathroom getting ready for her evening with Roman . |
| 10 | Blackwell had already been in touch with William Penn [ q.v. ] , when the Quaker proprietor offered him the deputy governorship of the infant colony of Pennsylvania , in a desperate attempt to reassert his authority over the resident Quaker oligarchy based in Philadelphia . |
| 11 | Belinda did n't know exactly where they were going , and in her five hard-working years in Brisbane had never been through these opulent suburbs before , but in a way it was nicer to surrender herself to a mystery drive . |
| 12 | Mrs Ditchburn had just been to her local shops at Cotteslow to buy her great-grandson a birthday card when she was set upon . |
| 13 | " The Madam always loved her children , " Nuala said , remembering how proud Katherine had always been of them . |
| 14 | Jane had never been to the aerodrome before — not actually past the guardroom and through the gates — and she had n't known what to expect that night . |
| 15 | Maggie had never been to the St Andrew 's Halls , and was looking forward to it . |
| 16 | Maggie had never been to the big barn before , the one that had looked so imposing from the air . |
| 17 | Eva had only been at Usher a couple of months and was preparing to go to the International College for Officers ( ICO ) in London on a refresher course after her long years overseas . |
| 18 | Although he did not begin painting seriously until 1911 , Gris had thus been in a position to watch at first hand the birth and development of Picasso 's Cubism . |
| 19 | Oxford Pest Control 's newest technician John Rilby had only been with the company four days but had already made his mark . |
| 20 | Mick had always been like a man to her . |
| 21 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 22 | Surely Faye had already been through enough ! |
| 23 | The Shah had repeatedly been to American during the last thirty years. ; he had been welcomed with full honours as not only an important chief of state by also a vital ally by every single president since Harry Truman . |
| 24 | John-William had been saying the same thing himself when Ben Braithwaite had still been in his cradle . |
| 25 | Jackson had previously been in Japan and appeared to harbour ill will because Australia had not played a more prominent part in the allied occupation of Japan . |
| 26 | Forgotten was the fearful nail-biting exercise Monaghan Day had always been for the whole house ; with distance it had become large , heroic , blood-mystical , something from which the impossible could be snatched . |
| 27 | Tom had also been with Kauffman and the other long-term French hostage , Marcel Carton , in the place in the south , the one with the makeshift tent . |
| 28 | In the past Stephen had sometimes been like this after being out late on the moor , feverish next day and light-headed . |
| 29 | Until that moment the sons of Aethelfrith had possibly been in alliance with the British leader . |
| 30 | Thach had long been in a minority within the party leadership because of his implacable opposition towards normalization of relations with China . |