Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been tossed into a bed of nettles against the wall of the churchyard . |
| 2 | Convergence associated with the continuing subduction of the remaining oceanic lithosphere along the plate margin would be maintained until the plate boundary had been fixed at a sufficient number of points to resist further subduction . |
| 3 | Foolishly , I had not bothered to carry out any of the psychic protective techniques I had been taught as a ‘ probationer healer ’ at a school of esoteric studies . |
| 4 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 5 | The blue-tit that had been swinging on a bramble , singing " Heigh , ho , go-and-get-another-bit-of-moss , " stopped his acrobatics and flew into the wood . |
| 6 | This is the first time UEFA has banned a Dutch club , but two years ago the national team were ordered to replay a European Championship qualifying match behind closed doors after Cyprus 's goalkeeper had been struck by a firework . |
| 7 | On reviving him the man told the head ganger that he had been struck by a blow at the back of the head yet medical evidence revealed no sign of injury , furthermore his whistle , flags , and lamp were never found . |
| 8 | Le Pen , meanwhile , had been cleared by a Versailles court on July 2 of " publicly insulting " the Minister for Public Services , Michel Durafour in September 1988 , by using the word-play " Durafour-crematoire " ( " four crematoire " having been the normal description for the furnaces used for burning bodies in Nazi Germany ) [ see pp. 36230 ; 37683 ] . |
| 9 | His father had been paralysed by a fall from a white stallion . |
| 10 | Mrs Burrows had been paralysed by a stroke . |
| 11 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 12 | This year BGS enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site on Triassic sandstones where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 13 | Each of the wide windows facing the road had been blocked with a sheet of paper . |
| 14 | They lit the candles they had brought and made their way along a passage which led out of the chamber , gazing wordlessly — he could n't remember that they had spoken at all while in there — at the arched limestone walls , at the tunnels that from time to time branched from this central artery , once into a wide gallery whose egress had been blocked by a fall of stone . |
| 15 | The official peace negotiations in Rome had been blocked by a succession of differences over a wide range of political and constitutional issues . |
| 16 | By that time six water-powered mills had been erected along a two-mile stretch of the River Don . |
| 17 | A barricade of flagstones prised up from the floor had been erected for a final stand and the Collector , snatching a moment to look back towards it , was dismayed to see that the other party was already behind it , thus leaving himself and his men exposed on the flank . |
| 18 | The house itself , she found , had been erected in a shallow depression in the mound surmounting the central part of the island . |
| 19 | A generation earlier Naevius had been silenced after a conflict with the aristocratic Metelli . |
| 20 | He quoted " dramatic data " which had been presented to a recent meeting of a committee charged with deciding the future of the shell . |
| 21 | The subject had been raised at a meeting between Prime Minister Petre Roman and President Mitterrand of France in Paris on July 18 . |
| 22 | Christian churches throughout Jerusalem , Israel proper and the occupied territories took the unprecedented step of closing in protest for the whole day of April 27 , and the controversy encouraged an improvement in relations between the normally conservative Greek Orthodox community and Palestinian Christians ; the Middle East International of April 27 reported that , soon after the Jews took over the hospice , a Palestinian flag had been raised on a nearby Greek Orthodox Church . |
| 23 | Furthermore , the Russian right wing had recently been reinforced by a new army , the Ninth , which had been raised for a drive on Berlin but was instead deployed against Austria . |
| 24 | Henry of Grosmont , whose earldom of Lancaster had been raised to a duchy in 1351 , died of the plague on 23 March 1361 , leaving two daughters as his coheiresses . |
| 25 | His erstwhile subordinate had been raised to a position of considerable power now , and he would no doubt recall how little mercy he had been shown by his former Controller . |
| 26 | Souza 's commitments were no doubt the more complicated because he had been raised as a Catholic , and had been taught that the eroticism of Hindu religious philosophy was wicked . |
| 27 | The matter had been raised in a petition to the parliament of 1305 , but was only confirmed now , presumably because , the papal see then being vacant , Edward was waiting to employ the statute as a lever on the new pope . |
| 28 | Porter had been raised in a children 's home from the time he was two years old . |
| 29 | By the time Callaghan took over , the average interval had been increased to a little over two years . |
| 30 | Government concern over the country 's economic performance had been increased by a current-account deficit of $646,000,000 in the first two months of 1990 , compared with a surplus of $888,000,000 in the same period a year earlier . |