Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 2 | It was reported that over-ripe tomatoes and some oldish eggs had been tossed at the door of two southern commercial stations , which was a smear tactic we deplored with emphasis . |
| 3 | Convergence associated with the continuing subduction of the remaining oceanic lithosphere along the plate margin would be maintained until the plate boundary had been fixed at a sufficient number of points to resist further subduction . |
| 4 | The manners which Topaz had been taught at the convent were good enough as a basis for acceptable behaviour , but she soon discovered that she had a great deal more to learn , and would also have to adopt a whole new set of values . |
| 5 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 6 | I was very interested in their answers to my questions , which often seemed to offer a different view of history from the one I had been taught at school . |
| 7 | Hair Type : Short , grown out style which had been coloured at home . |
| 8 | Assuming the Turkey Pens had been situated at the rear of the house , he reckoned he was now heading for the outer fence somewhere off to the north side of the grounds . |
| 9 | Those results would suggest that the other tumours were in fact new tumours , rather than persistent tumours which had been missed at the first cystoscopy . |
| 10 | Breeze had been gazing at the lights for so long that she was quite dazzled . |
| 11 | The woman behind the counter had been gazing at her through strong spectacles and now scratched doubtfully at her moustache with a thumb-nail . |
| 12 | Mr Piggott clicked his false teeth in disapproval at such wicked waste , and shook his head at the ‘ FOR SALE ’ board which had been erected at the gate the week before . |
| 13 | The British Plate Glass Manufactory had been erected at Ravenhead , near the village , in 1773 , and other glassworks followed . |
| 14 | From the document we learn that not only were pumps installed to drain the mines but a water-powered battery of stamps had been erected at Tilberthwaite . |
| 15 | A makeshift stage had been erected at the staircase end and , above it , Class 1 had hung a large , hand-painted Islamic crescent moon and star . |
| 16 | Ram-raiders used a stolen van to break into the Wineways store in Edgehill Road , Scarborough , just two months ago after bollards had been erected at the store to prevent such attacks . |
| 17 | She had been rededicated at St Luke 's a year previous to that . |
| 18 | No objection had been raised at the time , he said , and ‘ it is absurd that they should start to quibble a week later and try to reopen the issue ’ . |
| 19 | Of this Miller writes , ‘ It grows naturally in the West Indies , whence the late Mr. Robert Miller sent me the seeds ’ , and it would seem likely that Ehret 's specimen had been raised at Chelsea . |
| 20 | Ranteallo explained that a stone had been raised at the death of every Toraja king , and indeed queen — though no one remembered their names beyond a few generations . |
| 21 | The subject had been raised at a meeting between Prime Minister Petre Roman and President Mitterrand of France in Paris on July 18 . |
| 22 | The editor of the True Brit , who had been raised at Kelvin Mackenzie 's knee , was the possessor of a mercurial temperament . |
| 23 | He left behind him at Faber and Faber a most efficient young secretary , Miss Valerie Fletcher , who had been appointed at the end of August . |
| 24 | Within a month a master for the Lower School ( Mr. C. F. Howell ) had been appointed at £130 a year , and within four months the number of permitted boarders was increased from six to eight . |
| 25 | Towards the end of 1782 Gibson , the new estate manager for Sir Michael le Fleming , wrote to his master informing that a new steward had been appointed at the Coniston Mines on the 10th of November . |
| 26 | Jordi García Candau , a journalist and lawyer , was on Feb. 26 , 1990 , appointed director-general of Radio Televisión Española ( RTVE ) , replacing Luis Solana who had been appointed at the beginning of 1989 [ see p. 36776 ] . |
| 27 | But a spokesman said that all the claims the family are making had been aired at the mens trial two years ago and rejected by the jury . |
| 28 | Four cottage almshouses had been built at the eastern end of Strand-on-the-Green , in the first half of the eighteenth century , and dedicated ‘ for Ye use of Ye poor of Chiswick for ever ’ . |
| 29 | Towards the end of 1965 special high-security accommodation had been built at Durham , Leicester and Parkhurst , prisons . |
| 30 | For the prizegiving a platform had been built at the back of the stands where the Princess Royal , assisted by Jackie Stewart , presented the prizes to the teams and individuals . |