Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb past] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As early as the 1860s there had begun a phenomenon that has since become endemic in advanced industrial societies : in a word , recession . |
| 2 | Even before Tokugawa rule , however , there had begun a shift away from direct land entitlements towards a system of stipends payable by the lord to his followers . |
| 3 | There had emerged a leader who taught his army to distinguish the real from the imaginary and the possible from the impossible . |
| 4 | Would you believe it , the Africans there had formed a brass band and played all Irish tunes ! |
| 5 | This also meant that at the opposite pole of this evolutionary sequence there had existed a stage which was the exact opposite , a stage when men or women paired freely with whoever they took a fancy to , irrespective of any rules or regulations . |
| 6 | The primary legend of Atlantis seems to have started in the fourth century BC , when Plato wrote that Solon , who had lived a century or so earlier , had visited Egypt and there had been told by a priest that , once upon a time , there had existed a continent beyond the Pillars of Hercules ( that is , the Strait of Gibraltar ) . |
| 7 | WHEN THE SIGNALS to cease battle had been exchanged , and there had come a respite in the noise , and the smoke was curling lazily into the blue where clouds flocked and billowed , the islanders fell back and took stock of their situation . |