Example sentences of "had been [adj] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 2 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 3 | Of the remaining 176 ( 38 per cent ) , 16 had been present for 20–45 years and two for an astonishing 50 years . |
| 4 | I had been right about one thing — an enormous procession of funeral guests was making its steady way into the riverside church . |
| 5 | Prior William had been right about one thing . |
| 6 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 7 | She had been amenorrhoeic for six months before her first attendance at this hospital . |
| 8 | It was an argument that had been simmering for two days , and it was clear he was beginning to waver . |
| 9 | From the moment the family moved to Frome in the early 17th century and gave up being subsistence farmers with a complementary craft skill or two under their belts , they had been involved in one way or another with the world of industry — be it as manufacturing craftsmen or as retailers . |
| 10 | As you were aware , they had been involved in Three Hills in er developing Ayletts Field and successfully with us on our our most recent one . |
| 11 | At the same time she could n't help but wonder about the fact that in the space of twelve months he had been involved in three relationships , Anna Wallace , Amanda Knatchbull and herself , any one of which could have ended in marriage . |
| 12 | In the two financial years 1987-88 and 1988-89 , the council had been involved in 592 deals amounting to a notional £6,052.5m . |
| 13 | The armed forces continued to be split , chiefly over the issue of the treatment of soldiers involved in the " dirty war " of 1976-83 and in more recent military rebellions , with former officers such as Aldo Rico and Mohamed Alí Seineldin who had been involved in 1987-88 rebellions keeping a high public profile despite their pardoning and subsequent dismissal from the Army in October 1989 [ see p. 36972 ] . |
| 14 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
| 15 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 16 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 17 | When Alan and Carolyn had been married for four years , Alan 's grandmother ( Lucy 's mother ) died , leaving him and Pamela £20,000 each . |
| 18 | A wife , who had been married for six years , consulted the defendant firm of solicitors about her divorce proceedings . |
| 19 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 20 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 21 | Colette and Bernard had been married for fifteen years . |
| 22 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 23 | When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated . |
| 24 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 25 | I had been married for seven hours . |
| 26 | Mrs Ireland had been married for thirty-nine years . |
| 27 | Donald and Sheila Baughan had been married for 20 years . |
| 28 | Elizabeth and Harry had been married for ten years , both for a second time . |
| 29 | For example , Field End House had been open for three years as a specialist unit for children with learning difficulties , and was designed to offer respite ‘ round the clock ’ care . |
| 30 | On admission she had been anuric for 24 h ( haemoglobin 4.4 g/dL , potassium 4.1 mmol/L , creatinine 937 mmol/L , urea 119 mmol/L , lactic dehydrogenase 3327 IU/L , platelets 71×10/L ) . |