Example sentences of "had [been] [vb pp] here " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arsenic refineries and lime kilns had been operated here , too . |
| 2 | The pavements had been cobbled here to give it a quaint feel , and coach-loads of tourists were shuffling along with cameras dangling and guides chivvying . |
| 3 | The glass cone at Lemington , although incomplete , is one of few such survivals in Britain , and particularly in the region where the Venerable Bede tells us that French glassmakers were brought over to teach the ‘ English nation their handicraft ’ , which had been lost here after the departure of the Romans . |
| 4 | He saw her dust devil from a long way away , and knew that she had been led here by her own dreams , by the pull of the moon . |
| 5 | Nothing had been disturbed here — although the air of desertion and my timid light lent the place a sinister aspect . |
| 6 | This is anecdotal evidence to be sure , but given the lack of any measures to enforce the speed limit it was hard to see how any safety gains had been made here at all . |
| 7 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 8 | The residence of the Metropolitan had been transferred here from Vladimir and Ivan III ( the Great ) , 1462 — 1505 , had the wooden buildings of the Kremlin largely rebuilt in more durable materials . |
| 9 | To another it might have seemed utter confusion , but Chen had been born here . |
| 10 | She was as much a part of this murky landscape now as if she had been born here , every step of the way between Miss Gemma Dallam 's cloistered corner and her own — in spirit a universe apart — being so familiar to her that it seemed she had always known them , or had known them before , in another place , a dozen other places ; another life . |
| 11 | There were only about seven people left now out of the dozen or so who had been gathered here earlier . |
| 12 | It had been thought here that Mr Lawson might at least repeat the formula of the Madrid summit , which defined when the time would be ripe for the pound to join with the words ‘ once inflation is again on a downward path and we have seen the removal of exchange controls by our Community partners ’ . |
| 13 | Scores of chained skeletons lay in the aisles — rivals , no doubt , of the regime , potential competitors for power who had been left here naked over the centuries , stripped of everything , to contemplate its monumental history while they starved . |
| 14 | If she heard on the News that a man had been murdered here , she might have thought it was me . |
| 15 | The plans for that ceremony had been laid here , at number twenty-eight Gamut Street , and the mystif , amongst others , had been there to witness the preparations . |
| 16 | Three nights she had been imprisoned here — the last one without food or water , since the guard had not come at his usual time . |
| 17 | Huy understood why he had been dropped here , from where a large number of roads led off back to the various parts of the city , but guessed that they had underestimated his knowledge of the twisting muddle of streets that formed the harbour quarter . |
| 18 | They had been brought here to round up the escaped prisoners but fortunately no one was giving them any information . |
| 19 | About the life-matches that had been brewed here , come to life under this moon , and these rough-hewn walls . |
| 20 | She knew about Cormac of the Wolves , her great-grandfather , who had been exiled here for five years , and she knew about the others as well : Niall of the Nine Hostages , caught and chained and kept prisoner with nine faithful Lords until he broke out and regained the Throne . |
| 21 | But suddenly realised , ‘ You got Lubor to ring and say that my car had been delivered here ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Harry had been enticed here … |
| 23 | I suspected that the restaurant was cheap and that this was the reason we had been guided here . |