Example sentences of "had [adv] been [vb pp] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swirling snowclouds and rain strengthened the illusion that there was no outside world anymore , and that they had all been transported to some frozen Hell . |
| 2 | Certainly Artai would consider no one who had already been married to another , whether she had children or not . |
| 3 | He had always been involved to some extent , but when an old villager came to him and said , ‘ You ca n't let this thing die , your father was a polemaster and we look to you to see this thing does n't stop ’ , he could n't resist the challenge . |
| 4 | John Wesley and his close associate John Berridge ( 1716–93 ) , the Rector of Everton , had both been addicted to this practice ; both had used it to obtain an answer at a particular time to the knotty question whether to get married . |
| 5 | But , after nearly an hour , it was obvious that she had simply been brought to this near-empty building and left for the police to find her . |
| 6 | Matey , like Dr Neil , thought that McAllister might have been spoiled and pampered in her old life , but she had certainly been exposed to many good principles of conduct , even if she was headstrong . |
| 7 | Personally she had never been attracted to that sort in her life before . |