Example sentences of "street [vb past] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A padlock on gates leading into the station from Eversholt Street had been cut in advance . |
| 2 | Six months after the house was finished and the specially commissioned green leather furniture from Hull of Wardour Street had been arranged , Mrs Pugin 's health proved unsuited to watery Wiltshire . |
| 3 | Black Eagle Street had been swallowed completely , surviving only as the dray walk , where casks were loaded . |
| 4 | Baker Street had been inspected and its records checked . |
| 5 | As he fielded questions at a press conference in his Yeovil constituency about his terms for a coalition in the event of a hung Parliament or whether Downing Street had been given his telephone number , the instrument that could receive the crucial call was being hunted down by aides . |
| 6 | Bond Street had been looked over and found wanting : the clothes not displayed as they should be , the new vendeuse lacking in charm . |
| 7 | The house in Mouncy Street had been known in this casual society as a place to go . |
| 8 | Minnie Robinson still sent the occasional line but now Wimpole Street had been sold and she no longer had the doings of all the Barretts to catalogue her letters were empty things and difficult to respond to . |
| 9 | Or rather the house in Mouncy Street had been taken over by a succession of dead bodies . |