Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was from Camilla Parker-Bowles and had been written several days before the engagement was officially announced . |
| 2 | By its appearance it had been cooked several days ago . |
| 3 | A British team managed to reach one that , although it had been hooked several hours before , was still just living when its captor got it ashore . |
| 4 | She had been stabbed several times . |
| 5 | Dr Nakajima , accompanied on his tour by Dr Jo Asvall , head of WHO 's European regional office in Copenhagen , said that he had been asked several times if Yugoslav funds frozen in the US and other countries could not be used for purchase of medical supplies . |
| 6 | For Carolina in Brazil the non-controversial fiction film was likewise the only option left if she wanted to go on working at all : she had been jailed several times for the making of political films . |
| 7 | Nevertheless he shot the ‘ Singapore Tiger ’ , an arrogant character who had been seen several times before and was strutting ahead of his large patrol when the Corporal 's bullet killed him . |
| 8 | Belinda nodded , knowing by this time that Faye had been hospitalised several times for keto-acidosis and other diabetes-related problems brought on largely by her former wildly fluctuating blood-sugar levels . |
| 9 | The men had been gone several weeks , and when we appeared on the beach , the bear was probably expecting us to produce food . |
| 10 | He had received numerous death threats from Sendero Luminoso and from the Rodrigo Franco Commandos since being elected in 1986 and had escaped three assassination attempts , and his house had been bombed several times in 1989 . |
| 11 | All of us had been hit several times already and there was a correct way of dealing with it . |
| 12 | Their design had been changed several times before they were finally erected . |
| 13 | Within was a colour photograph of Nicola that had been taken several years before : her face was chubbier and her hair , although still a remarkable blonde , was straight and parted down the middle . |
| 14 | Clearly it had been taken several years earlier , but it showed , even then , the supercilious cast of a face which had looked into the camera with head held well back , and lips that seemed to smile with a curious arrogance above the Vandyke beard . |
| 15 | Moreover , despite the lack of artefacts , the bath-house at Catterick had been heavily used to judge by the state of the furnace cheeks , which had been rebuilt several times , and of the iron beams supporting the hot-water boilers , one of which had been completely burnt through . |
| 16 | The jokes between her father , mother and older brother had been adult , almost risqué ; she had been allowed several glasses of champagne without a reproachful look , and her rather revealing décolletage had passed without comment . |
| 17 | He then waited for his new prime minister , Sharpour Bakhtiar , who had been imprisoned several times during his reign , and in whose hands he now was leaving the country . |
| 18 | Its origins were Queen Anne but it had been remodelled several times , most radically at the turn of the century when it had become the holiday home of a London architect . |
| 19 | He had been wounded several times , twice seriously enough to have his life despaired of ; he had twice suffered the rigours of exile . |
| 20 | It had been imposed at the height of serious anti-government rioting and pogroms in February 1990 [ see p. 37256 ] , and had been shortened several times , but only now was the security situation deemed by the city 's military commandant to have stabilized . |