Example sentences of "had been [adv] [prep] 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 | It had been shortly before the war and Liza had been coming up thirteen . |
| 4 | Mrs Travers and Mrs Patel had shown flair for public relations from the beginning ; and the beginning for them had been shortly after the famed conversation in Sainsbury 's , when they organised a summer procession in honour of family values in a South London borough particularly hard hit by both government spending cuts and feminists insisting that ‘ family values ’ were a euphemism for women doing the housework . |
| 5 | ( In the 1989 election the FL , with 7.56 per cent of the vote , had been just below the minimum 8 per cent necessary to win representation ) . |
| 6 | The occupational structure of the village was very different from what it had been just before the Civil War when the parish register entries had briefly given men 's occupations ; between 1636 and 1639 Thurmaston 's register noted 8 labourers , 5 shepherds , 3 husbandmen , 2 innkeepers , 2 masons , 2 male servants , a carpenter , a miller , 1 curate , a weaver , a tailor , a shearman , a spinner and a mole catcher . |
| 7 | Worse , the decision briefly poisoned relations between Niki and James , which until then had been well within the bounds of friendly competition . |
| 8 | Real income per head of the UK population was lower in the mid-1980s than in eleven other advanced capitalist countries , while even in 1953 only three ( the US , Canada and Sweden ) had been ahead of the UK . |
| 9 | City had been ahead from the 12th minute when full-back Hill was left unmarked at a Brennan corner and took advantage with a crisp header . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | She had been completely against the war , right from the start . |
| 12 | In the first place , the number of very big cities was growing rapidly , as it had been since about the middle of the century . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Now she knew that Fernando was in contact with Maria Luisa and probably had been right from the off . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ( In fact the ambassador William Sullivan , had been nowhere near the airport ) . |
| 17 | At first Canadian settlement had been largely along the border with the United States , south of the 50th parallel , and American railway companies had taken Canadian grain to the world market . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Jean , surely , had been here at the time of the murder . |
| 20 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 21 | If the hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) had been here for the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) |
| 22 | When Lorton had been here in the summer , the car park was nearly full . |
| 23 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 24 | While I had been away at the Wye , the silver-grey had either moved her family to a new nest of had fallen foul of a fisherman 's trap . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Perhaps the patient had taken medicine for his stomach while he had been away from the table , and taken too much . |
| 27 | Peter had been outside in the wasteland . |
| 28 | On the way in the train earlier she had pictured her meeting with Penry over and over again , but none of her imaginings had been remotely like the reality . |
| 29 | A few days before Anthony 's death they had been together at the Lancaster Road Baths watching local semi-professional boxers . |
| 30 | 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 . |