Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ginguene 's most valuable next sentence suggests that the director 's baton had been waved all the time : it ‘ indicated by its strokes the end of each so-called bar and , by the various signs that it traced in the air , the various interpolations or divisions of that bar . ’ |
| 2 | They were too far away for her to recognise faces , but she could imagine John and Angela among them , unaware that they had been pursued all the way from Romania . |
| 3 | A police Rover had been parked half-on the pavement , along with a couple of officers ' cars . |
| 4 | But this time the door had been closed all the way , and she could n't make out what was being said . |
| 5 | It was difficult , even though she had been told all the problems of Gesner , to continue to hold oneself together in the face of such blatant hatred . |