Example sentences of "[noun prp] [Wh adv] [pron] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The death is reported of A. Shanks at Port Askaig where he had been agent for the steamer " Islay " for over 20 years . |
| 2 | Doyle had experienced Len Hatch when he had been a policeman on the beat . |
| 3 | I blurted out to Dominic how I had been feeling and to my astonishment and relief he said he felt the same — trapped and resentful . ’ |
| 4 | The stoma care nurse arranged that she would visit Mr Reynolds when he had been home 48 hours but gave him her telephone number in case he needed help before then . |
| 5 | When the Germans , who controlled Tangier through General Franco , demanded Klein 's arrest , Wharton-Tigar in 1943 had spirited Klein out to Gibraltar and from there on to the safety of England where he had been given British citizenship . |
| 6 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 7 | She had been hoping for a ‘ jobs Budget ’ to fulfil a great need in East Anglia where there had been a big increase in unemployment . |
| 8 | At one time Prime considered defecting to Russia where he had been promised a KGB colonel 's pension for life . |
| 9 | This was the period following Galileo 's move from Padua , where he had held the chair of mathematics since 1592 , to Florence where he had been appointed philosopher and mathematician to Cosimo II , grand duke of Tuscany . |
| 10 | The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games . |
| 11 | However , progress was made , in co-operation with the EC monitors ' team , on evacuating Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) garrisons from Croatia where they had been blockaded by Croatian forces , as Croatia agreed to lift the remaining blockades on garrisons in Zagreb . |
| 12 | They had hosted their own shoot at Dolphinton where they had been less successful . |
| 13 | They had hosted their own shoot at Dolphinton where they had been less successful . |
| 14 | He studied law before the war and during it worked with the resistance in Prague where he had been born . |
| 15 | The minister , just back from Chicago where he had been fighting to prevent the breakdown of the talks , described the prospect of punitive tariffs as ‘ sad ’ . |
| 16 | You know , Mrs Winkowski , girls will talk , and I suppose it was during one of Millie 's lonely periods while under the sisters that she confided in Annabel why she had been sent to the school . |
| 17 | The letter-writer is an orthopaedic surgeon who was taken off a plane as he was about to make a short visit to the UK where he had been a post-graduate student . |
| 18 | It comes from Rostand 's Chantecler , a play which Eliot recalled in 1919 , probably having seen it in Paris where it had been a hit in the winter of 1910 . |
| 19 | Had this self-contained man been as impulsive as McAllister when he had been her age ? |
| 20 | Pip then arranges , secretly , to buy his greatest friend , Herbert a partnership in a shipping firm but Pip 's wealthy lifestyle is upset when the convict , Magwitch , returns from Australia where he had been transported to . |
| 21 | They were vague shadowy figures , rather like her own mother had been , except that she remembered them slightly better because , when she had been about eight years old , Granny Tremayne had driven her over to Newquay where they had been staying . |
| 22 | Today 's news will come as a blow for British Agriculture minister John Gummer , who is just back from the US where he had been fighting to prevent the breakdown of the talks . |
| 23 | Today 's news will come as a blow for British Agriculture minister John Gummer , who is just back from the US where he had been fighting to prevent the breakdown of the talks . |
| 24 | In January 1983 Mansur Rajih was arrested in Yemen by members of al-Amn al-Watani ( National Security ) on his return from Lebanon where he had been a university student . |
| 25 | He returned to Los Angeles and then caught a plane to Europe where he had been invited to show the finished article at the Venice Film Festival at which The Last Movie was voted the best picture on exhibition . |
| 26 | Tulipifera liriodendron ( i.e. Liriodendron tulipifera ) known in England as the tulip tree and as a ‘ poplar ’ by settlers in America , first flowered in this country in the Earl of Peterborough 's garden at Parsons Green where it had been planted , according to Miller , in a wilderness with other trees allowed to overhang it for protection . |
| 27 | Robert had returned from Italy where he had been serving ever since he had been commissioned eighteen months before . |
| 28 | Both were nuns in the same religious order , one in the north of England , the other in France where she had been interned throughout the Occupation . |
| 29 | I had been afraid of her at Oxford where she had been a quick , intense , thundery girl who rarely bothered to talk to other women . |
| 30 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |