Example sentences of "had been [verb] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Countess 's childhood , before the Revolution , and before Belgium had been liberated from Austrian rule by the French , women had been taught to glide along a floor , their feet hidden by wide skirts and their slippers barely leaving the polished boards . |
| 2 | A police spokesman said all four people held had now been released without charge , although some had been bailed to report back to the police at a later date . |
| 3 | It was reported on Dec. 30 that Carlos Vera had been appointed to take over Zambrano 's portfolio . |
| 4 | Over the same period seven other cases of colonic cancer were found in association with ulcerative colitis , two in patients who had erroneously been diagnosed as having only proctitis and were therefore not entered into the programme , but were found at operation to have total colitis , one in a patient with colitis of seven years duration , and four patients who had previously attended the clinic but had been lost to follow up before 1978 and then had re-presented with new symptoms during the surveillance period . |
| 5 | One patient ( patient F ) who had been lost to follow up , had an anterior resection for a rectal carcinoma ( one Dukes 's C ) . |
| 6 | Under new powers , also approved on June 26 , the Serbian Assembly had been empowered to take over the affairs of the Kosovo Assembly and of other official bodies , and to suspend troublemakers . |
| 7 | The whole system had been constructed to stand up to earthquake pressures . |
| 8 | Joan received permission and active encouragement to attempt what she claimed she had been sent to carry out . |
| 9 | The officers had been warned to look out for a red Ford Sierra car following the shooting , in the early hours , of Special Constable Goodman and PC Kelly during a routine vehicle check on the A64 Leeds-York Road . |
| 10 | She had been tempted to cut out the photographs and keep them , but she had n't . |
| 11 | For an instant she had been tempted to get out of the invitation with a lie . |
| 12 | Willie had already helped paint the scenery but had been asked to take over as prompter when Matthew Browne had been suddenly whisked off to boarding school . |
| 13 | I put on my shoes and jacket which I had been asked to take off and told the doctor I would visit her another time . |
| 14 | Evans , who has transformed Cardiff from last season 's Welsh rugby no-hopers to this year 's championship contenders , said he had been asked to come back next year but personal problems might prevent him doing so . |
| 15 | The pupils were to pay special attention to vitamins and had been asked to find out what the " E " numbers mean on prepared foods . |
| 16 | The five players returned to the hotel 's night-bar , where they had been asked to calm down earlier in the night . |
| 17 | To stir up mischief , no doubt , and to eye Jean Bruce , the blacksmith 's daughter — they had been seen strolling about in the gloaming more than once , laughing quietly together and holding hands . |
| 18 | Harry 's own half-formed suspicions tended to focus on him because Clare Mallender had been seen mooning over his photograph at the Skein of Geese two weeks before her death . |
| 19 | Witnesses reported that both he and the Bf109 he had first attacked had been seen to come down , and he was credited with one victory . |
| 20 | And a cinnamon and blue nuthatch had been seen creeping up the trunk of a tree towards its mud-patched nesting hole , giving one lad a splendid chance to try out his new birthday present telescope . |
| 21 | He had been seen climbing down . |
| 22 | I had been trying to pick up a barman in a pub in Hammersmith . |
| 23 | Radio of Russia on Feb. 16 said that Russian enterprises had a powerful incentive to acquire roubles , and that because of a lack of roubles , they were being forced to put goods on the market which they had been trying to hold back . |
| 24 | He was probably quite old , then , Lindsey thought , busily fitting pieces into the mental jigsaw she had been trying to build up of her new boss . |
| 25 | Perhaps he had been trying to pluck up courage to tell Wycliffe himself . |
| 26 | Collecting up her leaflets , she made her way up to bed , and gave in to the little grin that had been trying to break out a few minutes before . |
| 27 | Sullivan then surrendered the embassy and opened the steel doors to the second floor of the chancery , which the attackers had been trying to batter down . |
| 28 | ‘ There were claw marks up the bank side where the badgers had been trying to get out . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible . |
| 30 | We began by talking about food , but food quickly became boring and was replaced by feelings , the things I had been trying to stuff down with food . |