Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] [Wh pn] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reabsorption into landed society of those families who had suffered in the upheavals of the past decade was to be a slow process , and was to give rise to fresh disputes over lands claimed by families who had been on opposite sides , but Edward showed over the next twenty years that loyalty and service would receive their due reward . |
| 2 | Their new abode was in a small , intimate street of 26 houses ; the Titfords in the male line were second generation immigrants from Somerset , but their neighbours there in Islington consisted of families who had been born anywhere other than London — a cosmopolitan mixture of Geordies , Lancastrians , people from Essex , Suffolk , Shropshire , Kent , Wiltshire , Somerset and Norfolk . |
| 3 | Though of course Müller-Claudius 's ‘ sample ’ was hardly a representative one , the responses have more than a ring of plausibility about them , and , coming from Nazis who had been in the Party since before Hitler 's ‘ seizure of power ’ , can be extended a fortiori to ‘ non-organized ’ Germans . |
| 4 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 5 | I think it must have been left by workmen who had been preparing the crypt for the disposal of some saintly relic or the body of a recently deceased priest . |
| 6 | But that rescue mission had been stopped dead by the presence of the twenty thousand Frenchmen encamped in Frasnes who had been sent by the Emperor to make sure that the allied armies did not combine . |