Example sentences of "had been [adv] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been shortly before the war and Liza had been coming up thirteen . |
| 2 | The previous X-ray of my lungs had been just before my operation in March . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Someone else had been here before him , tearing open the bags of perishables in search of anything worthy of rescue . |
| 5 | No er I th I thought Mr had been here before now , but he 's a very busy man you know , he 'll be coming . |
| 6 | He looked long and searchingly at the Banks of Knamber that tonight were as they had been then before the moon rose , grey and pale as a sky dotted with tiny black clouds . |
| 7 | Wallington flourished under a headmaster who had been there before the War , who grew roses under the class-room windows , and trees around the playing-field . |
| 8 | Whoever had been there before me did n't know about the spare key because the glass in the top half of the door was shattered and the door was open . |
| 9 | But Mr Evans had been there before her … |
| 10 | Only two of the masters had been there before the war . |
| 11 | James ' research for this brilliant book had taken him to the archives at Bordeaux , whereupon he discovered that his fellow Trinidadian , Eric Williams , had been there before him . |
| 12 | When the rest got back to the pageant carts , local Guildsmen had been there before them . |
| 13 | As I suspected , Carella had been there before me . |
| 14 | And as the boat station had been there before nineteen sixty six , probably a hundred years before nineteen sixty six , it was then claimed that this person had adverse possession , which in short , is squatter 's rights . |