Example sentences of "had been [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Inevitably , many of the young men Crawford had been engaged at great expense to coach found themselves in khaki instead of cricket whites . |
| 2 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 3 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 4 | Although the talks had been called at short notice in an attempt to reduce bilateral tensions , particularly in the light of recent failures in official negotiations , they were felt by press observers to have produced only ambiguous results . |
| 5 | I tried to look pleased when she told me that Prentice had been ringing at half-hourly intervals since mid-afternoon and had left a multiple-choice list of numbers where I could get him that evening . |
| 6 | Sliding hiatel hernia had been seen at preoperative cineradiography in 16 of 21 patients with follow up endoscopy , but no paraoesophageal hernia . |
| 7 | The eagle had been sighted at various points all over the British Isles by enthusiastic birdwatchers , most of them amateurs . |
| 8 | The accord replaced the 1983 Defence and Economic Co-operation Agreement [ see p. 32588 ] which had expired in December 1988 but had been extended at six-monthly intervals since then in view of the political uncertainties in Greece . |
| 9 | In four patients cirrhosis of the liver had been diagnosed at histopathological examination of liver biopsies . |
| 10 | I was in the Feathers the night Sandy MacAllister punched Laurence Uden on the nose for saying that Stanford Roberts had been drunk at poor old Sidney Cunningham 's funeral . ’ |
| 11 | In addition , inter-ministerial committees were to be set up to settle administrative questions which , until then , had been discussed at ministerial level . |
| 12 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 13 | Presumably , after carrying out their assignments , they had been returning at irregular intervals and were now preparing their reports for the final session of the afternoon . |
| 14 | Not many yards away , dunes and hillocks looked as if they had been dumped at random , each one rising about sixty feet above the plain . |
| 15 | Given that all those involved were volunteers , and had been chosen at random to be guards or prisoners , what does this tell us about the influence of power on human behaviour ? |
| 16 | She had been , it seemed , to endless dinners , parties and weddings on her own , she had been spotted at local cinemas with friends , sitting in the stalls alongside ordinary members of the public , and she had been seen on the town , at pop concerts , and in restaurants , with handsome young men . |
| 17 | Booker had been working at Liberal News and , after receiving a letter from Usborne , whose proto-satirical magazine Mesopotamia at Oxford had centred around Foot , Ingrams , and John Wells , the product hit the streets or rather those streets in South Kensington to which Andrew Osmond , another Oxford contemporary , chose to distribute it . |
| 18 | The shares , probably worth around 15p on fundamentals had been sold at various prices up to a staggering 45p . |
| 19 | Three of the drivers concerned had argued that they had been unfairly selected for redundancy because there were drivers with less service who had been retained at other quarries . |
| 20 | In considering the case of B Ltd , he stated that it was easier to conclude that the mezzanine platforms were plant as the four platforms had been installed at different times , covered only 60% of the floor area and one had actually been dismantled . |
| 21 | All of its metals had been freighted at colossal expense from Earth ; there was n't a natural curve to be seen , just endless arches and spires designed like a vast piece of jewellery . |
| 22 | The meat , which is part of the EC 's deep-frozen beef mountain , had been bought at low prices by food-processing firms . |
| 23 | They behaved towards each other like boys who had been educated at rival private schools . |
| 24 | Of the 766 hereditary peers listed in Dod 's Parliamentary Companion in 1987 , almost all had been educated at public school , no less than 371 of them — almost half — at Eton . |