Example sentences of "had been [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had disliked Colin since their first meeting ; the relationship , at a glance , had been fixed in the stereotyped antagonism between newly acquired fiancée and slightly disreputable old schoolmate and drinking partner . |
| 2 | Her husband had been serving in the British Merchant Navy on the Russian Convoy run but after 1943 he was receiving psychiatric treatment in Shropshire somewhere for his nerves . |
| 3 | Those views she had been taught in the twenties while a young girl , that men do not love or respect , still less marry , women who have ‘ given themselves ’ to them , she had been obliged to revise . |
| 4 | He fell back into the pattern of helplessness in the face of distress that he had been taught in the cradle . |
| 5 | The controversial new tax had been approved by the House of Commons in early 1990 but had been blocked in the Senate where the opposition Liberal Party held a majority . |
| 6 | The first attempt to get the bill through the Assembly had failed unexpectedly on April 6 when it had been blocked in the Chamber of Nations . |
| 7 | Walpole House , which had been erected in the sixteenth century , was altered with a new front elevation , in 1730 , and at about the same time two other houses were knocked into one to become Strawberry House . |
| 8 | On the other they disapproved of some of the impediments which had been erected in the twentieth century : the requirements of a lis inter partes and a superadded duty to act judicially were said to be false constraints . |
| 9 | It had been erected in the second half of the second century to house c number of specialist kilns and furnaces , but clearly overlay the remains of earlier bonfire kilns and spreads of potters ' clay . |
| 10 | A general strike was called for March 12 , and by March 10 street barricades had been erected in the capital , Port-au-Prince , and many other towns . |
| 11 | A bus had been rammed in the fog two nights before , when it was n't nearly as thick as this , and I wondered if he was scared . |
| 12 | Police launched a series of raids in Manila on March 18 , which culminated in the release of Michael Barnes , a US businessman who had been kidnapped in the city on Jan. 17 . |
| 13 | Previously , they had been presented in the basic , unaffected prose of fanzines but knew they had officially arrived in the real world of music journalism when Neil Taylor asked them to pose outside Buckingham Palace . |
| 14 | One fourth-year student at C explained to me that several experiments conducted in the lab in the first term of the year could not be written up until the second term , after the theory had been presented in the lecture course , which obviously meant a tremendous backlog of work to catch up on . |
| 15 | On Thursday the FBI played through loudspeakers tapes of previous conversations between negotiators and Koresh and a cult member , Steve Schneider , to make certain that all 105 followers still inside the compound were aware of what had been presented in the talks . |
| 16 | A platform had been raised in the square and , backed by a huge sound-system , half-a-dozen young people were giving a very energetic display of disco-dancing . |
| 17 | The question had been raised in the Commons during the debates on the Bill , when Churchill indicated that the Board of Trade hoped for co-operation between labour exchanges and local education authorities ( LEAs ) in the sharing of information , and that in certain instances Juvenile Advisory Committees ( JACs ) could be established . |
| 18 | The idea of ‘ humanism ’ had been raised in the report of the Consultative Committee when it warned : ‘ That the schools should humanise their pupils is an indispensable condition to their being able to impart true economic efficiency . ’ |
| 19 | Most of the original £300,000 for the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in 1777 had been raised in the two counties , but by 1800 37 per cent was held in London and the Midlands . |
| 20 | The Scropes owned extensive estates in Wensleydale ( whose value had been increased in the late sixteenth century by mineral exploitation ) and at Langar in Nottinghamshire . |
| 21 | On 17 July 1991 D. began staying access with his mother , and the mother was telling the social services and the guardian ad litem who had been appointed in the juvenile court proceedings that her relationship with the father was over . |
| 22 | It was reported on April 8 that Michel Mokuba Bokulo Mena , who had been appointed in the Cabinet reshuffle on March 28 , had resigned as Minister of Institutional Reforms apparently after disagreeing with the Prime Minister . |
| 23 | The literary form he followed derived from the Liber Pontificalis , that famous compilation of papal lives produced in Rome at the end of every pontificate by the pope 's own clerks ; especially in West Francia it had been adopted in the tenth and eleventh centuries as a model for the history of dioceses ( e.g. the Deeds of the Bishops of Auxerre ) . |
| 24 | She and Jack had been swimming in the Thames near Twickenham . |
| 25 | Children were playing on the green , a wet labrador that had been swimming in the beck was drying out by the village cross , and there was just room amongst the people sat at the table outside the pub for one man and his dog . |
| 26 | The Park — itself unmentioned by Pevsner — had been built in the 1870s and greatly enlarged in the years after 1883 . |
| 27 | By taking the little branch line which had been built in the park of the palace of Saint Cloud , the imperial train could go around Paris and then rejoin the main line to the eastern frontier , where the army was assembling at Metz . |
| 28 | Mughal-style stations had been built in the Lucknow — Agra area , often , as at Nawab , single platform stations with an overall roof framed by minarets — and with a side pavilion capped by domed open towers . |
| 29 | At Goulbourn a large brick structure with stone quoins and cornices and a central tower and dome had been built in the 1870s , and structure with powerful round-headed arches and long arcading on two storeys was more reminiscent of Indian stations than of those of Europe or North America . |
| 30 | In Somerset ‘ the tops of trees and houses only appeared … as if , at the beginning of the world , townes had been built in the bottom of the sea ’ . |