Example sentences of "had been [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 2 | It seemed like ever since the ‘ sixties there had been just one brand of government in two slightly different packages and nothing much ever changed ; there was this feeling that after the burst of energy in the early-mid-'sixties everything had been going downhill ; the whole country was constipated , bound up with rules and regulations and restrictive practices and just general , endemic , infectious ennui . |
| 3 | An attractive young woman in her mid-twenties , she had been just one year away from her final examinations as a solicitor when , two years earlier , she had been rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy . |
| 4 | Physically he had been just one millimetre closer to Doreen than ever before , but emotionally he had crossed a frontier . |
| 5 | Three years later , the Siemens brothers extended cable communications even further by implementing an 11,000km telegraph line between London and Calcutta , a very considerable achievement , one which had been yet another adventure , the sort that provided — like the Atlantic cable saga — the densely-packed reports and darkly realistic illustration for which the Illustrated London News had become justifiably renowned . |
| 6 | He had been dead some time . ’ |
| 7 | She was cold , she had been dead some time . |
| 8 | The general situation had been most unsatisfactory right from the start in 191 7 , even amongst the proletariat of Petrograd , the core of Bolshevik support . |
| 9 | They had returned on the late theatre train , and it had been most pleasant walking down from the railway station and along the seafront so late at night ; ah , to have a pretty girl by one 's side , and the touch of her lips on yours . |
| 10 | Even his own notorious plant , which had consistently gone downhill for ten years under his active leadership , had been steadily increasing efficiency and output for several weeks without interruption . |
| 11 | The Dutch yacht which had been away last week was back in its mooring beside the wherry , she noticed . |
| 12 | The murders in Mouncy Street with boys , drugs , sadism had been thoroughly fashionable crime , really Sixties , and had interested him very much . |
| 13 | After around twelve years of what had been almost continuous debate , the recommendations of the Wolfenden Committee were about to reach their legislative conclusion . |
| 14 | They had been together all morning , but little had been said . |
| 15 | They had been about half way through when the message had come from the District Chief . |
| 16 | If the kisses which she [ Princess Amalia at Aachen ] gave to my children , and to Wolfgang especially , had been all new louis d'or , we should be quite happy ; but neither the innkeeper nor the postmaster are paid in kisses … |
| 17 | And the accounts of Tatham 's kidnapping and death had been very worthwhile reading . |
| 18 | Before agreement was reached to establish the SEM by the end of 1992 , there had been very little progress towards establishing the Common Market . |
| 19 | When I arrived back I found that there had been very little press coverage and quite a lot of disbelief . |
| 20 | The ceiling and the walls in places were badly scorched , but structurally there had been very little damage and , luckily , the fire had been brought under control before it had had time to spread to other parts of the building . |
| 21 | And in times when there had been very little money , it had kept them going , Jasper and her , for months . |
| 22 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
| 23 | ‘ Retirement for me meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been very much part of my life . |
| 24 | Later we returned to the RAFA Branch HQ , where ladies of the branch had been very busy preparing food for members , and this was followed by a Tea Dance . |
| 25 | And people stressing a cost factor as important were relatively likely to say they had had at least some choice between different credit arrangements , whereas people stressing convenience were relatively likely to say there had been only one possibility ( though differences were small ) . |
| 26 | There had been only one moment to cause her any undue alarm . |
| 27 | The Fair Labor Standards Act ( 1938 ) established a national minimum wage and maximum hours of work , where before there had been only individual state laws . |
| 28 | And there had been so much coverage , a retrial would have been impossible . |
| 29 | Her fine words had been so much whistling in the dark . |
| 30 | My few months of married life with Helen had been so much lotus eating . |