Example sentences of "had [adv] [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |
| 2 | I say that I thought we had already been through all this . |
| 3 | Surely Faye had already been through enough ! |
| 4 | Worst of all , no one seemed to have remembered that we had already been round this particular course , decided the policy , and rejected compulsory private health insurance . |
| 5 | Even so , I did feel an enormous sense of anti-climax in the 200 metres heats and semi-finals ; I had not been through this in the Commonwealth Games because of my injury , and my lack of experience showed . |
| 6 | Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt . |
| 7 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 8 | It had not been at all like that . |
| 9 | I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before . |
| 10 | His slumber had not been at all restful . |
| 11 | So far though the viewers had not been at all suitable . |
| 12 | But things had not been at all what they 'd seemed — though she was bound by her promise never to reveal the truth . |
| 13 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
| 14 | ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 16 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 17 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 18 | She had not been in that position . |
| 19 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 20 | She would have liked Nice — if she had not been in such a hurry to be in Paris . |
| 21 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 22 | Certainly he had not been in such close proximity to a pretty young girl for as long as he could remember . |
| 23 | She had not been kissed for over two years and it was magical ; she was feeling it deeply , listening with everything in her but not remembering , because other kisses had not been like this . |
| 24 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 25 | But the party conflict had always been about more than the succession . |
| 26 | He had always been against this extravagant gesture , he pointed out , and now he was being proved right . |
| 27 | Yet , all in all , farming and the farm remained visibly what they had always been in most parts of the world : more prosperous in the developed areas , and hence investing more heavily in improvements , buildings , etc. , more businesslike in many places , but not transformed out of recognition . |
| 28 | During the Reagan presidency , the Guardian kept blaming his errors on age , and perforce , there I was again with another angry letter — ‘ Son of Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — pointing out that , like it or not , Ronald Reagan had always been like that , making the same kind of statement and endorsing the same brand of policies . |
| 29 | Charles remembered that Gerald had always been like that . |
| 30 | It had always been like that . |