Example sentences of "had been [verb] here [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The glass cone at Lemington , although incomplete , is one of few such survivals in Britain , and particularly in the region where the Venerable Bede tells us that French glassmakers were brought over to teach the ‘ English nation their handicraft ’ , which had been lost here after the departure of the Romans . |
| 2 | He saw her dust devil from a long way away , and knew that she had been led here by her own dreams , by the pull of the moon . |
| 3 | This is anecdotal evidence to be sure , but given the lack of any measures to enforce the speed limit it was hard to see how any safety gains had been made here at all . |
| 4 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 5 | The residence of the Metropolitan had been transferred here from Vladimir and Ivan III ( the Great ) , 1462 — 1505 , had the wooden buildings of the Kremlin largely rebuilt in more durable materials . |
| 6 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |
| 7 | How strange to think that Luke 's calculating message had been lying here in the shop since the day before . |
| 8 | She knew about Cormac of the Wolves , her great-grandfather , who had been exiled here for five years , and she knew about the others as well : Niall of the Nine Hostages , caught and chained and kept prisoner with nine faithful Lords until he broke out and regained the Throne . |