Example sentences of "had been [adv] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought that McAllister had been oddly subdued on the walk home , and had surreptitiously admired her face — even more beautiful , he thought , when pensive , even though in her early days at Vetch Street it had been her animation which he had admired . |
| 2 | ‘ Taking into account all the circumstances , the committee felt that he had been properly placed on List One and on the evidence available were not minded to move him to List Two as he had requested . ’ |
| 3 | The defendants argued that deformity would have occurred as a result of the injury , whether or not it had been properly diagnosed on the first trip to hospital . |
| 4 | By the early eighteenth century , the Jacobite supporters of the deposed king had become closely associated with popery , and the English church and state had assumed the role of a full and active member of the international Protestant alliance , a role which radical Protestants at home had been unsuccessfully urging on them throughout the previous century and a half . |
| 5 | ‘ Only the left hand side of the carving knife touched the next piece of meat , while the right hand side had been neatly wiped on the outside piece , so everyone else 's meat was unaffected . ’ |
| 6 | Doyle looked at the pad , where the words One , Two , Three , Four and Five had been repeatedly written on the missing top sheet . |
| 7 | The withdrawal had been temporarily suspended on Oct. 21 after the Russian Defence Ministry warned that there were no facilities to rehouse the soldiers in Russia . |
| 8 | They were somewhat taken aback , however , when its representative arrived not only with the chef , but with an assortment of eight other people , one or two of whom were faintly familiar , though unidentifiable save by Angelina , who had been best placed on Saturday evening to recognise the ‘ waiters ’ at the banquet . |
| 9 | In Lancashire , where the ILP had been well represented on local authorities and in the Trade Union movement , co-operation with the small and sectarian Communist Party was held to be damaging the ILP 's local influence . |
| 10 | Mick and Paddy had been well briefed on most things , but in the last-minute rush they were not given full details of my self-made code of conduct . |
| 11 | Despite a general sense of optimism surrounding Hariri 's appointment , a general strike called by the General Confederation of Lebanese Workers in protest at the deteriorating economic situation had been widely observed on Oct. 14 . |
| 12 | Prior to the rioting the Dinkins administration had been widely congratulated on successfully avoiding the disturbances which had affected many US cities in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots of April-May 1992 . |
| 13 | Cumani 's filly had been officially handicapped on three efforts over inadequate trips and should have no problem defying a penalty . |
| 14 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 15 | In that case the discretionary power to refund payment of rates for which the person who made the payment was not liable had been expressly conferred on local authorities by Parliament . |
| 16 | It was the fourth time she had been badly hurt on duty . |
| 17 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |
| 18 | Earlier in the month there had been official denials of allegations of a coup plan which had been reportedly made on Nov. 5 in Washington by Eduardo Molina Olivares , a member of the independent Truth Commission charged under the peace process with ascertaining responsibility for human rights abuses . |
| 19 | All in all , he had been departmentally punished on twenty-seven occasions , an average of once for each year he had spent in the force . |
| 20 | His attention had been fiercely concentrated on the back of the girl as she had slowly walked away , his blue eyes narrowed in appreciation . |
| 21 | If the tests were truly designed for the control of ‘ anti-social influences in the arts ’ , as the Report said , then how could the law seem other than misconceived when a decade or more of legal scrutiny and barristers ' banter had been publicly squandered on the anti-social potential of pubic hair , the peculiar dangers of which seemed clearer to the police than to juries . |
| 22 | The glowering Moi had been rewarded by the French plantation director with five piasters for each of them , and he and his brother had been publicly beaten on the soles of their feet by a group of overseers wielding heavy staves . |
| 23 | It was clear that Miss Morgan 's brain had been fully engaged on what she was doing , which was pushing a client 's interest , and that such attention as she could spare from that had been centred on her forthcoming marriage . |
| 24 | So as not to arouse suspicion , they continued fishing as usual , and when one of the bodies was discovered on the beach of Predmouth Bay a week later it had been so battered on the rocks that the Justices at Fowey had no reason to suspect foul play . |
| 25 | When in 1951 he demanded another 40 per cent expansion , ‘ that did not work at all , since these steel masters had been so nourished on Malthusianism that their dominant fear was over-production . |
| 26 | ( In fact , the corporation had been wrongly reported on this score and had issued no such edict at all . ) |
| 27 | The right of the inspector to be present at a review board had been legally challenged on one occasion and it was obviously necessary that he should be permitted to attend . |
| 28 | The commission had been correctly paid on all the relevant purchases except that of Framwells — the chain of tobacconist shops — which was easily the biggest deal Mike had handled . |
| 29 | The width had been correctly judged on this occasion ; but the gravediggers had skimped on the length . |
| 30 | She and her brothers had always found the idea of ancestral spirits appearing during the Cia ceremony an awesome prospect , but her sense of unease had been greatly heightened on this occasion by the fear of unknown punishments that seemed certain to follow the incident involving her baby gibbon at the governor 's palace . |