Example sentences of "had been [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
| 2 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 3 | They continued their research , but their reports were no longer published ( as they had been up to 1948 ) ; and , at a time when cost research was more clearly needed than ever before , Schiller 's team was starved of funds and talent . |
| 4 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 5 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 6 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 7 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 8 | She had re-established contact with her friends and had been out on one occasion in the previous week . |
| 9 | The night of Mandy Kelly 's murder George had been out on one of his walks . |
| 10 | The problem of the cut-off water supply — it had been off since eight that morning — had made it much worse . |
| 11 | It was hard not to think of life as it had been back in 1986 , or in Terry 's and Tom 's case , 1985 . |
| 12 | During the year the Nikkei Average index had failed to rise above the 26,000 mark , compared with some 39,000 at the end of 1989 , and operating revenues had been down by 23 per cent during the six months to September . |