Example sentences of "had been [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found a railway bridge that had been named the Chelmsford Bridge painted in drab brown colour . |
| 2 | For some years , the Purnells had been using the River Frome , the lower stretch of which had previously been dredged and cleared by Richard Owen Cambridge of Whitminster , to move coal and iron to and from the Severn to their mills at Framilode and Fromebridge . |
| 3 | 1932 was a momentous year in Chiswick , which had found itself almost isolated and unable to expand due to the River Thames cutting it off from the County of Surrey , and the boundary of Hammersmith to the east , being also the boundary with the London County Council ; with little or no contact or matters of interest with Acton to the north , but nevertheless a narrow link with Brentford , to the west ( Chiswick High Road had been called the Brentford Road for very many years ) , which link was considerably enhanced by the construction of the Great West Road . |
| 4 | It was in his camp here that he was approached by a French envoy on behalf of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria , the same Maximilian who had been given the Palatine Electorate in 1623 , with a view to saving his lands from the depredations of Gustavus . |
| 5 | Volpe , Sidtis and Gazzaniga ( 1981 ) observed four left handed patients who had been given the Wada Sodium Amytal test . |
| 6 | The fact that he had been given the Elphberg name of Rudolf by a Royalist father was of small importance to him , nor was he at first more than casually intrigued when he woke from a strangely prophetic dream in the forest of Zenda to hear two men discussing the remarkable resemblance between him and the King . |
| 7 | ‘ Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine . |
| 8 | Cecil , who had been considering the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot , believes the prevailing soft ground will negate the speed of the specialist milers . |
| 9 | When they returned , the Burtons , who had been sharing the Simmons — Granger household , moved out to a minute bungalow which they rented from the James Masons . |
| 10 | She swung round rather abruptly , and recognised the young man as one of the detective constables who had been haunting the Lodge all day . |
| 11 | After some initial problems had been overcome the Garratts were outstandingly successful , running on all gauges from 2 feet to 5 feet 6 inches on gradients up to 1 in 20 or more , usually at modest speeds on heavily curved and graded routes , but capable of 75–80 m.p.h. on the Algerian expresses which were headed by probably the fastest articulated locomotives ( 4–6–2+2–6–4 ) ever built . |
| 12 | After this had been achieved the RPC turned its attention to formulating a revolutionary policy which would replace the gradualism inherited from the Labour Party . |
| 13 | The Princess of Wales once told me that her husband had been watching the Miss World contest , which quite surprised me . |
| 14 | Some time later I was informed that I had been awarded the Verdienstkreuz or West German Order of Merit , First Class , which their ambassador pinned on me in a charming family ceremony at the Embassy in Grosvenor Square . |
| 15 | He returned late that afternoon , eager with the good news that they had been awarded the Rouen-Dieppe contract . |
| 16 | He had been awarded the Hanseatic-Goethe prize but was unable to make the trip to Germany in order to receive it , and even now was attempting to prepare an address for the following year . |
| 17 | After St Joan he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ; after his film of Pygmalion he had been given an Oscar . |
| 18 | Aung San Suu Kyi 's expulsion from the NLD , some two months after she had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize , was the latest attempt by the ruling junta , the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , to undermine her position as the main symbol of opposition to military rule . |
| 19 | Diana had been blaming the Highlands for what was a far more fundamental malady . |
| 20 | For at least twenty-five years , Western policy had been to help the Shah destroy all alternatives to his own rule . |
| 21 | His first choice had been to combine the Tchaikovsky concerto with a complete recording of the composer 's Souvenir d'un lieu cher ( Op. 42 ) , in the orchestrated version by Glazunov . |
| 22 | NRA forces were reported to have committed atrocities against the civilian population in Soroti district in the east , where the government had been fighting the Uganda People 's Army ( UPA ) , led by Peter Otai ; in September it was reported that 30 NRA personnel had been arrested for the killing of 60 civilians in the area . |
| 23 | Its aim in threatening to intercept the Dae Hung Ho had been to underscore the US position against missile proliferation in the region . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , police who had been guarding the BSP headquarters were accused of dereliction of duty because of their minimal resistance to the demonstrators . |
| 25 | Nicholson himself had been attending the Manson trial , taking copious notes , and was especially keen to observe the machinations of a non-sequestered jury . |
| 26 | The round-headed boy who had been polishing the Daimler 's windows ambled up and competently placed his hands on the rein either side of the black mare 's mouth . |