Example sentences of "had [been] [prep] [det] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I was spellbound : I had never known anybody who had been to such a faraway country .
2 She had been to all the parentcraft classes , and had not learnt a thing . ’
3 Only with an effort did those who had been to all the other parties locate one another and separate themselves from the mob .
4 I had been on all the northern capitals .
5 The tension between them , the sexual feeling , had been at such a pitch .
6 It was significant that this terse declaration spoke only of the military aspects of what had been above all a social and political conflict .
7 He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing .
8 It had been in all the national papers , but news is quickly forgotten , and at that time Willi must have been mourning his wife , trying to cope with loneliness and a small son , submerged in his own misery .
9 Since Christmas day her feelings for him had been in such a chaotic state she did n't know whether she loved or hated him .
10 A few of the teenage mothers in this book had been in such a home .
11 But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position .
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