Example sentences of "had [been] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in July , for example , he was asked to testify for the London Library against a rating valuation , he was visibly nervous before giving his testimony ( it seems , according to Rupert Hart-Davis , that he had been awake the whole night before ) . |
| 2 | Still , he was young and she had been afraid the house would be full of only old people . |
| 3 | He said he had been living with his parents in Fazakerley , and had been sub-letting the flat to another man . |
| 4 | Now if the polymer had been crystallizable the curve of the specific volume against temperature would have shown a discontinuity at the melting point as in Figure 3.12 . |
| 5 | If he had been angry the previous day over the matter of the raid on the Bedfordshire farm , he was by now almost hysterical with rage . |