Example sentences of "had been [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed . |
| 2 | A decade or so previously , Nizan had been taught the same bitter lesson . |
| 3 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 4 | The hay had been cut a few days before and dried in the sun and Frederick made light work of heaving it up to Albert on the cart . |
| 5 | When , each morning of that first anxious week , Colonel de Barescut attended the sickbed at Souilly to report on the events of the previous night , he had been asked the same question : ‘ What 's new on the Left Bank ? ’ |
| 6 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 7 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 8 | London had been given no such attention , but The London Society since 1912 had been undertaking work which was brought together in essays edited by Sir Aston Webb ( 1921 ) . |
| 9 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 10 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 11 | When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn . |
| 12 | The tin bath was half-filled with hot water into which had been poured the same perfumed green oil that Smallfry always added to her bath . |
| 13 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
| 14 | A similar scenario had been enacted a little more than 100 years previously at St Paul 's Cathedral , London , concerning the corpse of John Colet , Dean of St Paul 's , who died in 1519 . |
| 15 | There were those amongst his small circle of intimates who said it would be his undoing , but they or their predecessors had been prophesying the same for three decades , and Klein had out-prospered every one of them . |
| 16 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 17 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
| 18 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 19 | Her loose silk smock had been raised , while the elastic waistband of her matching trousers had been lowered a few inches so that her pale abdomen , not yet beginning to swell with the new life inside her , was ready to be smeared lightly with the gel that would facilitate the task of finding the tiny heartbeat . |
| 20 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
| 21 | She further alleged that an older brother had been doing the same . |
| 22 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 23 | I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham . |
| 24 | She was born when they had been married a few years . |
| 25 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
| 26 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 27 | And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think . |
| 28 | The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men . |
| 29 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 30 | The opposition Conservative Party elected Kaci Kullmann Five as party chair and John Bernander as deputy on April 20 ; Anne Enger Lahnstein had been chosen a few weeks earlier as leader of the agrarian Centre Party . |