Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the two he had talked to on the previous search , the ones who had been taking such pains with the dovecot . |
| 2 | Certainly nobody had been taking any notice of this one — but then , had n't he been playing very badly , anyway ? |
| 3 | Erm which would give you some contact with erm , er you know people who 'd er er just come out of prison or , or you know had been serving some sort of sentence or other , you know , maybe not a custodial one or something . |
| 4 | The two groups on the four- and five-year study programme had been denied any science education at all in pre-independence Namibia . |
| 5 | Twenty one years earlier , Franco had been denied this decoration . |
| 6 | He had spent many pleasant evenings here ; and Catherine 's parents had been trusting enough to withdraw to the morning room , leaving them alone together . |
| 7 | The arch of Porta Romana ai Bastioni , to give it its full title , was built in 1598 to commemorate Margherita of Austria leaving the city on her way to marry Philip III of Spain , although the ramparts into which it was fitted had been erected half a century before . |
| 8 | Eventually , after the subject had been raised many times by the Inspector , the CEGB gave in and agreed to produce the figures ‘ without prejudice , to its main argument . |
| 9 | She told Lord Penrose that the action had been raised some considerable time ago but negotiations were continuing . |
| 10 | The ideas carried in the individual features , including an end to mass unemployment , a planned economy , a comprehensive system of social security and health care , a clean sweep of all that was old-fashioned and squalid in housing and the urban legacy of the industrial revolution , and many more , represented a virtual glossary of progressive views current in the Britain of the 1930s and its contributors a fair cross-section of the high-minded and socially concerned individuals who had been advocating these and similar ideas well before the outbreak of war . |
| 11 | If Lewis had been learning more than he knew before about humility , Williams had been learning more than he knew before about medieval literature . |
| 12 | If Lewis had been learning more than he knew before about humility , Williams had been learning more than he knew before about medieval literature . |
| 13 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 14 | In the period before 1910 about 85,000 new houses had been built each year , but after the introduction of Land Values Duties the building rate fell sharply . |
| 15 | They had been built many hundreds of years ago by the people who lived on the moor . |
| 16 | His elder brother , Richard , lived nearby with his wife and young daughter , and like his father worked as a groom , possibly at nearby Waplington Hall , a large , gabled house that had been built some thirty years earlier . |
| 17 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |
| 18 | It was from Camilla Parker-Bowles and had been written several days before the engagement was officially announced . |
| 19 | ( Similarly , Datir ( 1978 : 245 ) found that only five of 644 released prisoners in a sample in Maharastra had been granted this . ) |
| 20 | The Yorkshire Television switchboard in Leeds with its myriad lines had been jammed all day with calls about Hannah . |
| 21 | But if it had been an unusually intelligent bird — an escaped mynah bird , perhaps , or a parrot that had been blown several thousand miles off course by very strong winds — ; it would have thought : |
| 22 | To his surprise she named a reputable dealer in fine art that he had been to see that afternoon . |
| 23 | I asked him whether I was right in supposing that over the years British music had been influenced much more by the Continent than vice-versa . |
| 24 | By its appearance it had been cooked several days ago . |
| 25 | He is retired now , but he had been sent all her possessions some time after the war from the house in avenue Hoche . |
| 26 | Michael had been sent this manuscript by another of his clients , the writer and broadcaster Bryan Magee , who also happened to be Cooper 's MP . |
| 27 | In 1988 , the Sunday Times Insight team had been sent this dossier , read it and chose not to rely on it . |
| 28 | The teacher had been sent some worksheets to try out . |
| 29 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 30 | The Midlands ' shop stewards knew it was only a question of time before the strike affected supplies to their own plants and those in the South , jeopardising the recovery plan which had been producing such vast improvements in performance . |