Example sentences of "had been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spring of 1915 thus found the Allies dug in opposite the German Army , which had been halted on the Marne . |
| 2 | The group also reportedly condemned the SPLA 's threat to attack relief flights into Juba , which had been halted on Sept. 7 , because of rebel fire [ see p. 38993 for UN airlift ] . |
| 3 | He glanced out at a gang of starlings fighting over some breadcrumbs that had been tossed on the lawn . |
| 4 | Her accusing eyes had been fixed on the solitary figure who 'd stood a little apart from the others , as if not sure of his right to be there . |
| 5 | The blue-tit that had been swinging on a bramble , singing " Heigh , ho , go-and-get-another-bit-of-moss , " stopped his acrobatics and flew into the wood . |
| 6 | Cormack had been swinging on the bar stool , fingering his wallet because Amanda 's appetite for food and drink had made his credit cards nervous , when he 'd seen the man in the raincoat in reception and the beer had spilled over his hand and left wet stains on the varnish for the boy to polish away . |
| 7 | The witness said Gary had been swinging on the metal posts on May 11 when they collapsed on his chest . |
| 8 | Another had been operated on ( partial gastrectomy ) before referral to our institution and received additional radiation therapy ( 30 Grays ) . |
| 9 | One patient had been operated on ( partial gastrectomy ) for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously . |
| 10 | She had been struck on the back of the head and strangled , said Mr Wakerley . |
| 11 | Reports that Tajikistan was selling uranium had been denied on Jan. 31 in an official statement from Tajikistan 's Foreign Ministry . |
| 12 | Earlier reports of such purchases by Iran from the former Soviet republics and North Korea had been denied on Jan. 8 by Iran 's mission to the UN Security Council The permanent representative of the Russian Federation at the UN , Yuliy Vorontsov , had made similar denials on Jan. 23 . |
| 13 | While he had been talking like an estate agent , getting his full value out of the situation , the full embarrassment of it had been dawning on Jenna . |
| 14 | The London County Council was given an administrative home when their County Hall , Which had been erected on the south bank of the River Thames , at the foot of Westminster Bridge , was officially opened by King George V , in July 1922 . |
| 15 | Similar divisions existed at Bruen Stapleford in Cheshire , where on one occasion the local Puritan landowner , John Bruen , instructed his servants to pull down a maypole which had been erected on the village green . |
| 16 | A red and white striped tent had been erected on the pavement and two young men in blue overalls were lounging against a nearby wall , mugs in hand . |
| 17 | Huge marquees had been erected on steel frames . |
| 18 | By 1723 , ninety-nine cottages had been erected on small pieces of land taken from the wastes . |
| 19 | I had been counting on his saying no to at least one of those , so that I could issue a hollow guffaw and depart , shaking my head ruefully ; but he did not , and I had no choice but to slink away or sign in . |
| 20 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 21 | Claus Toksvig , then a Danish broadcaster based in London , had been reporting on unemployment in Britain . |
| 22 | Keenan had been kidnapped on April 11 , 1986 , while working at the American University of Beirut . |
| 23 | Sutherland , a United States national and dean of Agriculture at the American University in Beirut ( AUB ) , had been kidnapped on June 9 , 1985 [ see p. 34133 ] . |
| 24 | Four-letter words had been uttered on television before , but never so fulsomely , so splenetically , and never at teatime . |
| 25 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 26 | The bill had been presented on March 20 by Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo after inflation had risen to 27 per cent in February . |
| 27 | The new government 's programme had been presented on April 24 . |
| 28 | Lucille , a Norman , had been raised on stories of the merciless English pirates who lived just across the Channel and who , for centuries , had raided her homeland to kill and burn and plunder . |
| 29 | ‘ I saw it , ’ whispered Kirk , who had been raised on Wardle 's tomfoolery . |
| 30 | Robert Schuman , the French foreign minister after July 1948 who had been raised on the Franco-German border , was attracted to European unity as a way to bring a rapprochement between the two countries . |