Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 32 | It had happened before that England had been sluiced clean of every significant esoteric and thaumaturgist . |
| 33 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 34 | Taylor pointed out that pride and eagerness to play for England had been restored these past two games . |
| 35 | The device worked exactly as DeVore had said , but the truth was that he had access only to Tongjiang , and that only because Hans Ebert had been daring enough to take the thing in , risking the possibility that an over-zealous officer might search him , Tolonen 's favourite or no . |
| 36 | Simon had been growing restless , but all of a sudden he spotted someone with whom he could discuss yesterday 's success . |
| 37 | He said well Karen had been getting moody . |
| 38 | I 've had this twice and each time its been , its been other people , because his got a lot of goods people 's belongings out of one cupboard into another and the second time round there 's been purgatory because he brought Karen 's house , her hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his , everything that belonged to him but he said that before , I said why was Michelle able to jumped in between him and Karen , he said well Karen had been getting moody , and he said Karen was getting bored , Paul is boring , she 's told Paul that his boring boring . |
| 39 | Klaus had been elected Civic Forum chair on Oct. 13 , 1990 ( see p. 37791 ) . |
| 40 | Chauthala had been appointed Chief Minister on Dec. 2 , 1989 , replacing his father , Devi Lal , on the latter 's appointment as the central government 's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture [ see pp. 37031 ; 37124 ] . |
| 41 | Belinda nodded , knowing by this time that Faye had been hospitalised several times for keto-acidosis and other diabetes-related problems brought on largely by her former wildly fluctuating blood-sugar levels . |
| 42 | Her tone betrayed the fact that she had been keyed up about it ever since the procedure had been done this morning at the obstetrician 's consulting-rooms , and Belinda hoped Faye had been keeping careful tabs on her blood-sugar level in case it was being affected by her mood . |
| 43 | ‘ NatWest had been told that merchant banking was a good idea , but I do n't think they thought much beyond that , with the result that we could plough our own furrow , ’ he says . |
| 44 | For three or four years now , Mrs Mandelbaum had been giving free English classes in her home . |
| 45 | Old Eddy had been wiped clean . |
| 46 | Mrs Cath Thompson and Mrs Judy Robinson had been told senior officials from Grand Met , which owns 28 pubs in the Darlington area , would travel to the town to hear publicans ' grievances . |
| 47 | Jackson had been made redundant as a result of a drastic decline in orders and Turner 's company had gone into liquidation . |
| 48 | For Theda had been woken one night , a few days after Mr Aycliffe 's visit , by Hector whining next door . |
| 49 | Richard used a new toothbrush which Martin had been saving fresh from the cellophane . |
| 50 | Twelve months ago Tom had been placed two half-days each week in an off-site unit for disruptive children . |
| 51 | A police Rover had been parked half-on the pavement , along with a couple of officers ' cars . |
| 52 | She had not been surprised to learn that the accountant Morris had been proved innocent of any crime and had pointed the finger at Spencer Grenfell . |
| 53 | Once Edward Morris had been set free , he had recommended her to some of his friends and so trade was looking up . |
| 54 | It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself . |
| 55 | If Lewis had been learning more than he knew before about humility , Williams had been learning more than he knew before about medieval literature . |
| 56 | Responsibility was claimed by the Islamic Jihad Movement — Bayt al-Maqdis ( Jerusalem ) , which had also claimed responsibility for an attack on an Israeli tour bus in Egypt in February 1990 [ see pp. 37265-66 ] , and which in late October had been declared illegal in Israel and the occupied territories . |
| 57 | On May 26 it was announced that Vladimir , Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk had been elected new head of the UOC . |
| 58 | But The Washington Post reported on 22 February that Mr Frohnmayer had been warned last October that he might as well start looking for a new job . |
| 59 | It was understood that the UK had been guaranteed three of the quota of 15 tests authorized by Congress over the next three years under new test-ban legislation passed in September [ see p. 39121 ] . |
| 60 | Turned out she wanted to know if Uncle Adam had been sending any radio messages . |