Example sentences of "had [adv] been [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had all been stage-managed by the Mossad . |
| 2 | The attackers had obviously been surprised by the ferocity of their defence . |
| 3 | The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise . |
| 4 | She had lately been excited by reports of the exhibition at Bullock 's Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly , London , of Monsieur Jerricault 's Great Picture , 24 feet long by 18 feet high , representing the Surviving Crew of the Medusa French Frigate on the Raft . |
| 5 | Bernard had always been intrigued by the possibilities of photography — Cartier-Bresson being an early idol as much as Hemingway now he had an opportunity to indulge his aspirations . |
| 6 | Peter married a woman with two sons , aged non and 12. he had always been impressed by the boys ' good behaviour and had n't realised it was because their mother hits them whenever they do the slightest thing wrong . |
| 7 | Dexter had always been impressed by Blanche 's coolness under fire . |
| 8 | When she had first plied her trade as a child prostitute , she had always been embarrassed by their silent knowing stares . |
| 9 | I had always been appalled by the ease with which men seemed able to separate sex and love and now here was I building a high wall around myself and saying , ‘ I will let you into my body but stay out of my mind . ’ |
| 10 | It reminded her of how , in her youth , she had always been puzzled by the lines of the hymn : Can a mother 's tender care , cease towards the child she bear ? |
| 11 | Martin Fleischmann told me that he had always been puzzled by the behaviour of hydrogen in palladium . |
| 12 | However , AWA had also been negligent by allowing Mr Koval to operate without ‘ effective control and supervision ’ . |
| 13 | John Simpson had also been appalled by the competition entries for Paternoster Square and , at a very late stage , had managed to get hold of a copy of the brief — — to provide office space and car parking — and had sat down with a number of colleagues to draw up a scheme of their own . |
| 14 | He had then been horrified by what he had done , and had turned against the creature to which he stood as God stood to Adam — that sounded like the baffled reformer again to me ! |