Example sentences of "had been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , if it had been either of these , how would they get into the Tower , mysteriously ring a tocsin bell and then arrange for Mowbray 's fall ? |
| 2 | Nearly everyone , I would have guessed , had been either in the dining room or the dome car all morning . |
| 3 | The question of royal finances had been particularly in the public eye following the confirmation by Peter Brooke , the National Heritage Secretary , on Nov. 23 that the government would meet the costs of restoration of substantial portions of Windsor Castle which had been partly destroyed by fire on Nov. 20 . |
| 4 | It had been shortly before the war and Liza had been coming up thirteen . |
| 5 | Mrs Travers and Mrs Patel had shown flair for public relations from the beginning ; and the beginning for them had been shortly after the famed conversation in Sainsbury 's , when they organised a summer procession in honour of family values in a South London borough particularly hard hit by both government spending cuts and feminists insisting that ‘ family values ’ were a euphemism for women doing the housework . |
| 6 | Then he discovered Ash had been beforehand with him . |
| 7 | Harriet Tremayne , her mother , had been strongly against this , but Tom , her husband , a charming , indolent and indulgent man , had argued , with a certain degree of logic , that ‘ the girl had to do some kind of war work ’ and that it was better for her ‘ to do something she had set her heart on ’ . |
| 8 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |
| 9 | She had been just past Luke when he had caught at her , and now his arms came round her from behind , drawing her back against him , and the response she dreaded was already weakening her as the warmth of him transmitted itself to her . |
| 10 | ( In the 1989 election the FL , with 7.56 per cent of the vote , had been just below the minimum 8 per cent necessary to win representation ) . |
| 11 | She had been just in time . |
| 12 | It had been just after Christmas ; she had worn a new pair of fur mittens her sister had given her . |
| 13 | Sara 's best years , Slater continued , had been just after leaving school . |
| 14 | The previous X-ray of my lungs had been just before my operation in March . |
| 15 | The occupational structure of the village was very different from what it had been just before the Civil War when the parish register entries had briefly given men 's occupations ; between 1636 and 1639 Thurmaston 's register noted 8 labourers , 5 shepherds , 3 husbandmen , 2 innkeepers , 2 masons , 2 male servants , a carpenter , a miller , 1 curate , a weaver , a tailor , a shearman , a spinner and a mole catcher . |
| 16 | The previous night we had been well on course for it . |
| 17 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 18 | In spite of her affected disinterest , Taureg 's return had been well worth watching . |
| 19 | Worse , the decision briefly poisoned relations between Niki and James , which until then had been well within the bounds of friendly competition . |
| 20 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 21 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
| 22 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 23 | Roxburgh summed up the occasion by saying his team had ‘ everything to gain and nothing to lose ’ , an ironic choice of phrase given the fact that the national coach had been up since 6.30am figuring out ways to compensate for loss . |
| 24 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 25 | By now , 1345 hours , the Colonel had been up with the leading Troops for more than because two hours , and as the short Arctic day was drawing to a close he ordered the withdrawal to begin . |
| 26 | That morning Sara had been up with the dawn to walk for the last time in the castle grounds to say goodbye to her doves , her servants , her horses and her hounds , the last of which seemed to sense what was happening and started howling as soon as she had departed . |
| 27 | Vivien had been up at St Hugh 's , so I was looking forward to her being an excellent guide . |
| 28 | The guys who had been up at Lockerbie , after Pan Am 103 , working alongside the British police , they did n't know how lucky they 'd been … |
| 29 | Jarvis Stringer 's grandparents ' qualifications for keeping a school were that he had been up at Oxford where he had read Greats and she had left Goldsmith 's College halfway through her teacher training . |
| 30 | Slorne , who had been up at the back of her cage most of the day as usual , suddenly opened her wings , swung round and dropped down to the front of her cage . |