Example sentences of "had been [verb] the night " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the court reconvened , it was told that a key prosecution witness , Gabriel Mekgwe , had been kidnapped the night before , forcing a further adjournment . |
| 2 | He had been warned the night before not to attempt to go to the airport but had done so anyway . |
| 3 | The manager Willie Ormond claimed the players had been given the night off and therefore a breach of discipline had not taken place . |
| 4 | Laing 's response to this extraordinary solidarity from a colleague , and in outrage at losing his money , had been to spend the night in the Jeddah branch falsifying the records to ‘ prove ’ that a much larger sum had been embezzled with the co-operation of Steve Pyle himself . |
| 5 | No sound came from within , for the mares now would be in the fields , including the little foal which had been born the night of the burglary . |
| 6 | The beach had been promised the night before , but rain had obliged an alternative treat . |
| 7 | Louise Taylor , the girl in the picture that Duncan had been shown the night before , was now dressed in an ill-fitting cheap Russian dress . |
| 8 | They found out from the crew that the ship had been boarded the night before a few miles out from Gdańsk by a Russian naval vessel and that a Polish passenger had been arrested and taken off . |
| 9 | She switched off the alarm clock , then lit the fire that had been laid the night before . |
| 10 | Quigley just stood there , his immense arms loose at his side , as the mass of the congregation , murmuring among themselves like extras in a bad production of a Shakespeare play , swept after Pike as he turned and , bucket in hand , ran off across the Common towards the spot where Mr Marr had been sitting the night the aliens came . |
| 11 | The intelligence officers , having failed to allow for Double Summertime , which had been introduced the night after the first ‘ Hess ’ flight , were on the point of standing down the op just as the bombers droned into hearing . |