Example sentences of "had been [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly everyone , I would have guessed , had been either in the dining room or the dome car all morning . |
| 2 | The question of royal finances had been particularly in the public eye following the confirmation by Peter Brooke , the National Heritage Secretary , on Nov. 23 that the government would meet the costs of restoration of substantial portions of Windsor Castle which had been partly destroyed by fire on Nov. 20 . |
| 3 | The village of Uppercross in Persuasion ( 1818 ) , for example , ‘ had been completely in the old English style ’ , two houses only showing themselves to be superior to the dwellings of yeomen and labourers : the squire 's mansion with its high walls and great gates , and ‘ the compact , tight parsonage , enclosed in its own neat garden ’ . |
| 4 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 5 | I had a feeling that if I had been somewhere in the midst of a mob at Madison Square Garden they would have sill got that metallic voice to talk to me . |
| 6 | She knew that her presence and unwavering support was as important to the outcome as all the physical and psychological preparation that Lennox had been through in the past few months . |
| 7 | Chairman John McBaine , passing sentence , labelled it a ‘ tragic case ’ , adding it was difficult to realise what suffering Lee had been through in the last few months . |
| 8 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |
| 9 | When Lorton had been here in the summer , the car park was nearly full . |
| 10 | While the unit had been away in the field , the usual correspondence was being exchanged between the various staffs involved , almost certainly without Stirling 's knowledge . |
| 11 | He was like an old car that had been around in the neighbourhood for a long time , loaned out among your friends , used and passed on , so that when it got to you in your time , you knew what you were getting . |
| 12 | Peter had been outside in the wasteland . |
| 13 | When the three of them had been together in the kitchen , the infant Camille crawling round with jam on her face and fingers , he had sat in a state of sullenness bordering on rage or had conspicuously moved about preparing food for himself , knowing quite well that his dinner was cooking in the oven . |
| 14 | At any rate it had been so in the past when Elmwood had been a private school . |
| 15 | The child who opened the door to him was the one that had been out in the fields with his father . |
| 16 | Kahane gave him the one for the previous month , explaining that they had been out in the desert for six weeks . |
| 17 | The men at the headman 's house decided , on behalf of the village , that every dog that had been out in the night , possibly taking part in the fight and helping bring down the rabid dog , would have to be killed : and all bitches on heat , whether they 'd been inside or out , must also be killed . |
| 18 | Now , The Cheaper Sex had been out in the States for some weeks , and it seemed as if everyone under the age of twenty-one wanted a copy . |
| 19 | If you had been out in the middle of space , far from anything else , they would have stayed put . |
| 20 | The youngest children had been out in the playground ; some of them survived . |
| 21 | Born about 1182 in Normandy , the son of a German father ( Henry the Lion ) and an Aquitanian mother , he had been much in the company of his uncle , King Richard I , who created him count of Poitou at the age of fourteen . |
| 22 | While In 1960 Cambridge English had been still in the process of accommodating traditional canonical scholarship to the revisions of the new criticism , by the end of that decade this process had been displaced in the name of a pluralism of approaches . |
| 23 | The stout landlord , who had been down in the cellar fetching a fresh keg of ale , lowered it to the floor . |
| 24 | And , most of all , Trent would like to have known why the photograph he had taken from Don Roberto 's house had been there in the first place . |
| 25 | But it was only as a last resort in 1120 that the community committed itself to , and based its case upon , the expedient of introducing into existing documents the necessary phrases , which — if they had been there in the days of Lanfranc or Anselm — would have given their case a firm basis in papal documents . |
| 26 | Going back along the ditch and down beside the house , she tried to convince herself that no one would have heard her love-shriek , but she was already frightened that they had , and when she tiptoed into the scullery and crossed to her straw pallet in the corner , her fear increased tenfold , for she was immediately certain that the blanket had been moved and that someone had been there in the scullery only minutes before . |
| 27 | He had been there in the palace at Tongjiang with her , and still he had not visited her bed . |
| 28 | Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’ |