Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way this impinged on the message Macmillan had been taking up to the generals in the front-line was that they might now have to prepare even more urgently for military operations to reinforce allied policy . |
| 2 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 3 | However , on Aug. 16 the Swedish Supreme Court ruled that Mikhail Mokretsov , 19 , who had hijacked an airliner to Stockholm on July 5 , should stand trial in Sweden ( he had attempted suicide while in custody , and had been pronounced mentally unfit to face extradition ) . |
| 4 | During the Cienfuegos speech Castro confirmed that work on the Juraga nuclear power plant in Cienfuegos , the construction work on which was begun in 1972 and which was now 90 per cent complete at an estimated cost of US$1,000 million , had been halted indefinitely for lack of funds . |
| 5 | So that national er budget that had been accumulating over , over twenty thirty years just basically vanished . |
| 6 | Yesterday 's jeans and shirt had been tossed on to the rumpled heap made by his sleeping-bag and two dented pillows . |
| 7 | She felt as if her own emotions had been tossed brutally into a whirlwind . |
| 8 | At first she had been surprised when a flask and a chunk of bread had been tossed down to her that first night , until she had remembered that de Raimes did not want her dead just yet . |
| 9 | A BITTER David Gower blasted England 's selectors last night after he was virtually the last to hear he had been tossed back into the cricketing wilderness . |
| 10 | He bent to get a closer look at one drawing that had been fixed lower than the others , as if the teacher had somehow tried to segregate it off and pretend that it was n't part of the display . |
| 11 | A low-loading trailer had been fixed up as a platform for the clergy who led the service and the singing . |
| 12 | Most of the puppets looked rough-hewn and primitive , but two were utterly grotesque , as plastic dolls heads , complete with eyelashes and floppy yellow curls , had been fixed on to their stick-like bodies . |
| 13 | Furthermore , as soon as he did turn up , Maradona unwisely told the expectant press corps that he thought the World Cup draw had been fixed so that Italy would find itself in an easy group . |
| 14 | Furthermore , as soon as he did turn up , Maradona unwisely told the expectant press corps that he thought the World Cup draw had been fixed so that Argentina would be in a difficult group and Italy in an easy group . |
| 15 | Robert had returned from Italy where he had been serving ever since he had been commissioned eighteen months before . |
| 16 | I had been taught not to cry till I was really hurt , and so it was not until about eleven o'clock I really began to be noticed and I went into the theatre . |
| 17 | Almost certainly the eldest child — Theresa , was n't it ? — had been taught not to accept lifts from strangers , particularly men , and he was virtually a stranger . |
| 18 | We had been taught how to set up a simple charge with detonator and fuse . |
| 19 | He had been taught how to play lacrosse as a boy at the Stockport Secondary School by the Physics master , Mr. William White , an Old Stopfordian , and after the war he reintroduced the game to the Grammar School . |
| 20 | He had been swinging in and out of consciousness for several days . |
| 21 | He thought for a moment that time had been operated on . |
| 22 | All had been operated on , four of them by combined adenoidectomy and insertion of a tube and one by insertion of a tube only . |
| 23 | In patient 4 , who had been operated on before being referred to our institution , neoplastic cells including centrocyte like appearance infiltrated the mucosa , submucosa , and stomach muscles , with sparse extensions into the perigastric conjunctive tissue . |
| 24 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 25 | Patient 4 who had been operated on before referral received additional radiation therapy . |
| 26 | Forth patients had been operated on , 14 of whom had been subjected to only ileocoecal resection . |
| 27 | Arsenic refineries and lime kilns had been operated here , too . |
| 28 | After the first plaintiff had purchased the entire shareholding of the second plaintiff , they learned of allegations that the contract with the health authority had been operated fraudulently . |
| 29 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 30 | The first two of those were also included were made public , they are in the issue 's papers it did not make public the county council 's proposal as to who should be participants for each topic since those were matters for the the panel er to ma take a view of and I understood er from er the question er the answer to the question that it had been made clear that er the information had been made public except as always Chairman , er our legal office 's of the council always like that caveat that in case anything had been missed out I had just in fact suggested that perhaps not everything had been made public so I anticipated a possible supplementary question from Mr . |