Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] [prep] these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |
| 2 | And in the 1930s he had been unforgiving towards these friends of his youth . |
| 3 | His face was still but Sheldukher could see that he had been troubled by these words . |
| 4 | Neither the Education Department as a whole , nor the Child Psychology section , had been consulted in these matters . |
| 5 | This was a time of panic , in which one farmer alleged that a thousand of his sheep had been killed by these parrots ; but it is now known that they rarely kill sheep . |
| 6 | Once agreement had been reached on these questions , the negotiations centred on the key issue of grade boundaries , i.e. the translation o job scores into grades . |
| 7 | The situation rapidly became chaotic , and a 250-bedded hospital , which had been allotted for these cases , contained some 1000 patients , when in 1915 Harrison was urgently called upon to sort things out . |
| 8 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |
| 9 | Five cases of the rare tumour retinoblastoma had been found in these children , 20 times more than the usual number . |
| 10 | But she had been battling against these odds for five hours , so perhaps her judgement was a little warped . |
| 11 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 12 | They claimed the Goths who had settled along the Vistula and in the Ukraine as the founders of the Polish state , saying that rule and order had been brought to these lands over the heads of the drunken , idolatrous and stupid Polish peasantry . |