Example sentences of "and had been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Houck had personally followed the histories of two reactors in Missouri ( Callaway ) and Kansas ( Wolf Creek ) which were prototypes for Hinkley C. Both had cost three times their original budget — $3 billion apiece — and had been plagued with teething problems in their first few years of operation . |
| 2 | When her alarm woke her up the next morning , she felt heavy-eyed and lacking in energy , but that was probably because her sleep had been long in coming and had been plagued with dreams when she had eventually managed to drop off . |
| 3 | He had tried once already to talk to Nicholas about it , and had been kicked on the ankle by le Grant . |
| 4 | The child said he claimed to have witnessed a murder , and had been affected by it . |
| 5 | That shipment too had come from Spain and had been tracked by Customs . |
| 6 | He had hitherto resisted the pressure for his resignation , and had been supported by Prime Minister Felipe González Marquez , a close friend and political ally since the 1960s . |
| 7 | Pilkington , the brother of Gloucester 's retainer John , had been a royal servant since the early 1460s and had been rewarded with land in the north midlands , bringing him within the duchy connection . |
| 8 | Pilkington , the brother of Gloucester 's retainer John , had been a royal servant since the early 1460s and had been rewarded with land in the north midlands , bringing him within the duchy connection . |
| 9 | Franco 's failure to assist them undoubtedly contributed to that result and had been calculated in political rather than exclusively military terms . |
| 10 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 11 | For once the lawyer had concluded his business , having called upon both his own groom and Mrs Elswick to witness the document he had drawn up , and had been seen off the premises , Theda had gone back upstairs to find her employer in a state of near-collapse . |
| 12 | Murtach had learned of a great wolf pack that seemed to roam west of the Skriaig and had been seen by a few desperate hunters seeking deer beyond Ralarth 's borders . |
| 13 | He had suffered vomiting , dizziness , tiredness and headaches and had been seen by a doctor in Winchester before returning to his family home in Scarsdale Road , Norris Green . |
| 14 | The appellant was Michael Thomas Bromell who had been convicted on 16 October 1987 at Warwick Crown Court of unlawful wounding and had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 15 | Debray , later a minister in France 's socialist President Mitterrand 's Government , had spent time with Guevara in the jungle , and had been sentenced to thirty years by the Bolivians . |
| 16 | Just before the accident , he had snatched his favourite toy from his brother and had been stopped by his mother from hitting him over the head . |
| 17 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |
| 18 | So , inference : the picture had been painted at a time other than it appeared to have been , and had been painted by someone who " could not have been there " . |
| 19 | Although himself not a sportsman he was an enthusiastic supporter of sporting activities by deaf people and had been involved as an administrator in all prewar Deaf International Games . |
| 20 | Conversely , many of those in the amalgamated force who had previously worn helmets in their earlier life and had been moved into flat caps in 1969 welcomed the return to ‘ natural ’ apparel and their own version of a correct bodily disposition which had been prescribed in a 1958 edition of the Northumberland County Police Standing Orders . |
| 21 | One might make the assumption that these are the same son of people who a few years earlier had enjoyed and had been moved by the pageantry of George V 's Jubilee and by George VI 's Coronation . |
| 22 | Sister Marcus said Mr Francis was rather poorly and had been moved from the Seriously Ill to the Dangerously Ill List . |
| 23 | It had been formed from Buffon 's old Jardin du Roi ( the royal zoological and botanical garden ) by the revolutionary government , and had been turned into a major institution for promoting the study of all the non-physical sciences . |
| 24 | For Miss Green , Lee 's appointment was perceived as an explicit threat simply because in the previous year , renewal of the Cassell Trust 's grant had not been easily secured and had been made on the understanding that the 1930 renewal was to extend only for a further and final two years . |
| 25 | Nicholson did not appear in the film and was used as a production assistant by Corman ; but it is worth mentioning because it was a significant moment in Hollywood history , inspiring as it did a succession of similar films when other producers noticed that The Wild Angels grossed eight million dollars in no time at all , and had been made on a shoestring budget . |
| 26 | The days of the Prize Ring were such a brutal business , fought under rules which enabled men to inflict terrible injuries on each other , and fights were fought to a finish when a man was downed and had been battered into insensibility . |
| 27 | Bahamas has arrived from Keighley the previous day , travelling in tandem with ‘ Princess Margaret Rose ’ from Blackburn and had been kept in light steam . |
| 28 | Dwight Kronweiser had been born in nineteen forty-five , and had been named after the victorious Allied Commander in Europe , whom his parents , even then , foresaw as a future President of the United States , a new Ulysses S. Grant . |
| 29 | The driver , Patsy Gillespie , who was also killed , was described by the IRA as a " collaborator " for having carried out construction work for the security forces , and had been coerced into a similar operation previously at the Fort George Army base in the city . |
| 30 | He said the statue was well received at the Garden Festival and had been wanted by many local authorities . |