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 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 6 | But the party conflict had always been about more than the succession . |
| 7 | He had always been against this extravagant gesture , he pointed out , and now he was being proved right . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Charles remembered that Gerald had always been like that . |
| 11 | It had always been like that . |
| 12 | I 'll put a bit I thought it had always been like that . |
| 13 | Passion had swept in then , and he had entered her , unable to help himself , clinging to her as she had earlier clung to him , and although he had been gentler than he had ever been with any other woman , she had cried out , and her face had twisted with pain , and Fergus had felt blood on his thighs . |
| 14 | The Chairman of Orkney Island Council Social Work Committee , Councillor Mairhi Trickett denied that any members of her department had ever been to any courses or seminars on the subject of ritual or satanic abuse . |
| 15 | ‘ Work , ’ she told him quietly , her eyes seeking the dark depths of his for something that would relate to what they had once been to each other in Seville . |
| 16 | And there had also been for many years the musical evenings at your parents ' home . |
| 17 | And the unions had also been through this scene recently . |
| 18 | The terror , rather than tepidity , of the priesthood , it had undoubtedly been in many an Italian city in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries ; and even more , perhaps , in the bloody riots in Cologne in 1074 which nearly subdued the pride of the prince archbishop of the city — or the riots in Laon in 1112 which erupted in the murder of the unpopular Bishop Waldric , and gravely shocked both the chivalrous King Louis of France , and his neighbour the English king , Henry I , whose chancellor Waldric had been . |
| 19 | In the past Stephen had sometimes been like this after being out late on the moor , feverish next day and light-headed . |
| 20 | He had evidently been through all this before . |
| 21 | Pakistan had recently been under some pressure from the USA to formulate a fresh political initiative on Afghanistan . |
| 22 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |
| 23 | I had never been to such a show before — not at all the thing that well-bred young ladies are supposed to attend — but she made me laugh … |
| 24 | She had never been to this exalted place before and it seemed to be a place of dreams . |
| 25 | Belinda did n't know exactly where they were going , and in her five hard-working years in Brisbane had never been through these opulent suburbs before , but in a way it was nicer to surrender herself to a mystery drive . |
| 26 | According to the assessments of relatives , friends , and neighbours who answered the questions , the quality of life of people who had been in a residential home for a year or more before their death was similar to that of others who died but had never been in such a home . |
| 27 | Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes . |
| 28 | But Ximena was seized with such fear as if her heart would have broken ; she and her daughters had never been in such fear since the day that they were born . |
| 29 | I thought I had never been in such great danger . |
| 30 | I had never been in such a forest and found it fascinating . |