Example sentences of "had [adv] been [vb pp] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the original purchase price was £28.8 million , the property had already been written down in the balance sheet to take account of the general fall in values . |
| 2 | Austin Brown , the ace photographer who took these beautiful pictures , had already been flown off in a Cessna 172 . |
| 3 | She took me into the first-floor front room , where my father had already been laid out in his coffin . |
| 4 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 5 | Just as he could have received promotion over the years , but had always been turned down in favour of someone younger . |
| 6 | Indeed , black workers had originally been brought in in times of labour shortage and ended up doing the kinds of ‘ dead end ’ jobs which allowed white workers to set their sights higher — to a great extent they are still found in these same jobs . |
| 7 | By 1640 all the British colonies in the New World had assemblies of elected representatives to look after local problems of legislation and taxation and , while some of them had been created with royal authorization , some had plainly been set up in order to make independence possible . |
| 8 | Martin Flook , 19 , said he had twice been beaten up in the previous year by Ian Coombes , a passenger in the other vehicle , who was dating his ex-girlfriend . |