Example sentences of "[coord] had [been] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was nineteen in 1773 , and had been tutored at Oxford by George Strahan , a friend of Johnson . |
| 2 | Shop fittings which were worth £3,000 and had been bought at an auction by Transom Trading for only £1,500 prior to opening the shop in August 1991 . |
| 3 | Direct Line Insurance is Britain 's largest direct insurer and had been running at 100,000 new policies or thereabouts for three years . |
| 4 | It was an important administration and social centre and had been populated at least two thousand years BC . |
| 5 | Given that all those involved were volunteers , and had been chosen at random to be guards or prisoners , what does this tell us about the influence of power on human behaviour ? |
| 6 | In 1884 he had gone out to the Sudan with the rank of captain , and had been wounded at the battle of Abu Kru the following January . |
| 7 | Twenty-four theses from data set C recorded no consultations , but had been cited at least once . |
| 8 | She was lying on the edge of the bed far from Tom and had not known it was Tom 's bed and Tom 's room or that she was not alone , but had been cast at once , as usual , into that incredulous panic where she was asking herself , how could I have left Mike ? |
| 9 | The accord replaced the 1983 Defence and Economic Co-operation Agreement [ see p. 32588 ] which had expired in December 1988 but had been extended at six-monthly intervals since then in view of the political uncertainties in Greece . |
| 10 | The man 's brown tricorne hat had come from neither the French nor the British army , but had been bought at the market in the Norman town of Caen . |
| 11 | The referendum had been scheduled for November but had been postponed at the request of the political parties following the transitional government 's evident difficulties in drawing up a voters ' register . |