Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Singh had been visited at home and the head had arranged for me to be present so that I could explain and reinforce any suggestions . |
| 2 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 3 | Khmara had been arrested inside the Supreme Soviet on Nov. 17 , 1990 , as a result of an incident during the October Revolution holiday on Nov. 7 when he and his co-defendants had been involved in a scuffle with an undercover KGB ( State Security ) officer in a pedestrian subway in Kiev . |
| 4 | Her steely determination , however , had worked , and that very weekend Earl Spencer had been released from hospital and moved into a suite at the Dorchester Hotel , until he was strong enough to be moved home to Northamptonshire . |
| 5 | Mr Milmo said that it was ‘ utterly and completely false ’ to suggest that Mr Clay had been influenced by the prospect of some plum job when he retired . |
| 6 | Edgar and Isabella Linton had been invited to lunch , and their mother had agreed , on condition that her darlings were kept carefully apart from ‘ that wicked boy ’ . |
| 7 | Ari had been struck by the smells of Arcady more than anything . |
| 8 | Robert Trevor Jones , prosecuting , at Chester Crown Court , said Lound had been evicted from Valiant Close , Warrington because of rent arrears . |
| 9 | By this stage , Field Marshal Lord Alexander of Tunis had been dragooned by Churchill to become Minister of Defence and , in effect , ‘ overlord ’ of the Admiralty , War Office and Air Ministry . |
| 10 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 11 | In 1935 Uruguay acceded to Brazilian pressure to break links with Moscow because of allegations , apparently not unfounded , that the Soviet trading office in Montevideo had been used as a conduit for funds to the Brazilian insurgents . |
| 12 | I was in Italy and read in the paper that Paul Van Kempen had been appointed as General Music Director in Aachen . |
| 13 | Some said at the time that Leviathan had been written for Cromwell , and indeed Hobbes did say that it supported a ‘ conscientious obedience to the present government ’ of the Protectorate . |
| 14 | Adams had been charged with indecently assaulting three children . |
| 15 | While Party Politics was a topical tip seized by thousands of once-a-year punters only five days before the General Election , Adams had been talking of the gelding winning a National for nearly two years . |
| 16 | Ken and Orton had been introduced by Michael Codron in 1964 . |
| 17 | Becky had been admitted to hospital earlier with a stomach upset and died at her parents ' home the night she was discharged . |
| 18 | Private George Trumper had been killed on 2 November 1917 at Passchendaele , the letter had informed him : bravely , while charging the enemy lines at Polygon Wood . |
| 19 | As soon as they knew that Bella had been assigned to her , the other two trainees cornered Marie in the canteen and briefed her on what to expect . |
| 20 | When Ceauşescu 's chief intelligence adviser , Ion Pacepa , defected to the United States in 1978 , he claimed that Ceauşescu had been engaged in a long-term strategic plan codenamed ‘ Red Horizon ’ . |
| 21 | Perhaps even some of his own words about Ceauşescu had been translated into the languages spoken in Romania for the edification of Ceauşescu 's subjects . |
| 22 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 23 | Donna had been rummaging beneath the bed upstairs , where she 'd pulled out both of the metal cases . |
| 24 | Like most of the women in the street , Pat Johnstone had been angered by it all . |
| 25 | Nevertheless the Trotskyists themselves split , on the issue of whether or not to co-operate with the ICP , and , just as the VNQDD had been destroyed as a competitor with the Communist Party by French repression after Yen-Bay , so the French colonial government , shortly after war had begun in 1939 , rounded up virtually the entire leadership of the Trotskyist International Communist League , as it was then called : a coup from which the movement never recovered . |
| 26 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
| 27 | Piers Gaveston had been exiled from the household of Edward when he was Prince of Wales , but was quickly recalled after the prince 's accession in 1307 . |
| 28 | Laughton had been linked with Davies , Well aware of Widnes ' financial problems and the crippling costs of maintaining Davies ' who recently signed a three-year £80,000-per-season contract with cash-strapped Widnes . |
| 29 | An organization called Ilinden had been formed in Sofia on Nov. 14 , 1989 , to campaign for the rights of the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , heightened expectations of the imminent release of Nelson Mandela had been fuelled by remarks on Jan. 8 by his wife Winnie Mandela , who said after a three-hour visit to his prison bungalow that " I do n't think that we are talking about months any longer " . |