Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Reports say material has been seized by police , but Detective Superintendent Mike Hames , head of the squad , said no decision had been taken on any police action . |
| 32 | The only truly representative delegation was that of the United States whose five delegates had been chosen earlier that year at a convention in Cincinnati . |
| 33 | He had been let down several times , they had done all sorts of things without asking him , and sometimes he only found out what they 'd been up to when the papers rang for comment . |
| 34 | That evening I went to the Charity Gala Evening in aid of Birthright , and the Keats- Shelley Memorial Association , at the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair which had been opened earlier that day by Prince Edward . |
| 35 | It had been laid out some fifty years before by one of those famous Scottish golfers who had dominated golf in the first couple of decades of the century . |
| 36 | It had been agreed implicitly that group relief should be deducted from profits only once . |
| 37 | He had been hurt so much by life that he had to laugh at it and there was not a trace of bitterness in him . |
| 38 | In France the direction des consulats et des affaires commerciales which had been set up some years earlier was reorganised in 1882 . |
| 39 | He had been told very little , and even that he had difficulty in remembering because he was so filled with excitement and anticipation . |
| 40 | He thought he was covered to drive another vehicle , and said he had been told as much on the telephone by his insurers . |
| 41 | Staff had been told earlier this year to take a 10% pay cut to try to save jobs . |
| 42 | My other idea for a healthy Ireland , an Irish king , had been proved yet another alien English notion , for pre-Ascendancy Ireland boasted not one but many kings . |
| 43 | She knew she had been brought up these last few years with her Aunt Alice and Uncle Stan because of the instability at home . |
| 44 | The main level which ran along the southern branch of the vein had been brought in some 210 fathoms from the entrance . |
| 45 | While the others were talking of Hubert Molland , Peter had felt like a spectator at a play — as if he were watching a scene that had been rehearsed so many times that the actors spoke their lines mechanically , hardly caring about the meaning . |
| 46 | But new safety procedures had been introduced so such an event could never happen again . |