Example sentences of "had [adv] [been] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 12 member country heads of government attending the Maastricht meeting had all been at the Rome summit and at Luxembourg in June 1991 [ see pp. 38295-97 ] . |
| 2 | The three women who were still alive after 10 years had all been in the therapy group . |
| 3 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 4 | But that had all been in the future that morning . |
| 5 | True , he had only been on the periphery , a bit-part player who could usefully be dragooned into secondary roles when a little muscle was required . |
| 6 | Rosenthal , who had only been on the field 15 minutes , made Barlow pay in full for his wastefulness yet Liverpool should not have had to wait so long to get their noses in front . |
| 7 | But she had only been on the mountain for two hours , three at the most . |
| 8 | Payton who had only been on the field for six minutes put Celtic further ahead in the 66th minute when he accepted a left wing pass from Collins to shoot low into the net from six yards . |
| 9 | A council spokeswoman said the couple had only been on the waiting list for 11 years . |
| 10 | A council spokeswoman said the couple had only been on the waiting list for 11 years . |
| 11 | Both were initiated by Billy , a 16-year-old with a recently acquired impairment who had only been with the group for a year . |
| 12 | Oxford Pest Control 's newest technician John Rilby had only been with the company four days but had already made his mark . |
| 13 | Fran had only been to the luxurious floating restaurant a couple of times , but knew from experience that the food was excellent and very expensive . |
| 14 | I had only been in the force five weeks . |
| 15 | The father had only been in the country six months and had no means of supporting his son . |
| 16 | ‘ He had only been in the house four minutes at the most when he suddenly turned to me and said : ‘ Would you come to dinner with me tonight ? ’ . |
| 17 | He had only been in the cellar for about one minute when the ghost appeared and he had had no time to doze . |
| 18 | It is not the hardest peak in the Alps but it is one of the classics , and we had done it , though we had only been in the area a couple of days and had still been acclimatising . |
| 19 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |
| 20 | Middlesbrough were portrayed as extravagant young upstarts ( the club had only been in the Football League since 1899 ) , and Sunderland were reproached for daring to ask for such a sum . |
| 21 | Jed had only been inside the building once , and all he could remember was the angel . |
| 22 | While on furlough in England my thoughts had naturally been on the new tasks ahead . |
| 23 | As the royal party came through the school gates , however , an entire youth brass orchestra , who again had obviously been at the ready for several hours on a cold wintry day , burst into life in the playground . |
| 24 | The Tilean had obviously been in the Empire long enough to look to its patron deity , Sigmar of the Hammer , for protection . |
| 25 | Emily had taken her revenge swiftly , severing the ties that had long been between the Grenfells and the Morgans . |
| 26 | ‘ Red Ellen ’ had long been in the public eye — notably as the figure at the head of the Jarrow March in 1936 bearing down upon London to protest against the enormity of unemployment . |
| 27 | The Kirkwoods had to sell their horses , had to endure the slow oncoming tread of gentility in all its shabbiness , to watch the encroaching , ever-drawing-near of the Irish natives who had long been in the tenure and service of the Great House , and now never would be again . |
| 28 | In most cases they did not go far or , if they did , the paths from their region to the city had been well-trodden by kinsmen and neighbours , like the hawkers and seasonal building workers who had long been in the habit of coming up to Paris from central France , whose numbers grew with the constructional work of Paris until , after 1870 , they turned from seasonal into permanent migrants . |
| 29 | His opposite number , Clive Lloyd , had already been through the two formative experiences of his captaincy . |
| 30 | An example is the 1975 pay award in BR , which had already been through the RSNT when the Prime Minister Harold Wilson intervened to press management to resume negotiations and make a higher offer ( see ch. 9 ) . |