Example sentences of "had been [verb] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results of the pilot programme ( based on the ability of the mothers to recall what they had been taught two weeks previously ) were so promising that BRAC launched a programme to teach the method of preparing LGS to every household in the country over a period of about ten years . |
| 2 | His lordship had been entertaining two guests , a young lady and gentleman , in the summerhouse , and had watched my father 's approach across the lawn bearing a much welcome tray of refreshments . |
| 3 | His mission had been planned two years ago when he worked well with stablemate Balthus , the 1987 Cambridgeshire winner , and Glover promises he has something else in the yard to continue the trend in two years . |
| 4 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 5 | There was a lot of stuff in there I did n't understand , such as ‘ MM ’ and ‘ TT ’ and ‘ JS ’ , mostly in the form of cryptic notes after a company name , though even I worked out that ‘ BB ’ meant Big Bang , when the City had been deregulated two years before . |
| 6 | His action was popularly resented as a poor show of gratitude for the benefit he had been given two years before . |
| 7 | He claimed half-hour warnings to the Samaritans and police in Merseyside had been made two minutes after the bombs were planted . |
| 8 | Agreed , the appointment had been made two months ago . |
| 9 | As a matter of authenticity , and given that the appointment had been made two months ago and that perhaps Mr Gajdusek might need a little reminder , she took the letter from its envelope while , his touch again tingling , again gentle , he smoothed some cream over her bruises . |
| 10 | Twelve months ago Tom had been placed two half-days each week in an off-site unit for disruptive children . |
| 11 | His father had been killed two years before , and Mallachy had been known to refer to him , with his grim-eyed smile , as some sort of hero , a victim of the UFF or someone like them . |
| 12 | It was also through Bede that the AD system of reckoning the years from the Incarnation of Christ , that had been devised two centuries before by Dionysius Exiguus , was introduced into England . |
| 13 | He was not particularly pleased with the result , however : when The Family Reunion had been televised two years before , he confessed that it was the first television play he had seen and that he found the medium deficient . |
| 14 | Tony Chivers reported that a number of villagers had volunteered to be footpath representatives and had been allocated two paths each , which they had agreed to walk at least twice a year . |
| 15 | Earlier , there were bitter exchanges when Labour 's Alun Michael ( Cardiff S and Penarth ) demanded to know why the Government had not built a single one of 65 secure units for juvenile offenders which had been promised two years ago . |
| 16 | The committee had been established two years earlier by the Wilson Government in response to widespread indignation about rate increases imposed by the new councils in 1974 . |
| 17 | The Russian Sputnik had been launched two years before , and produced in the United States a feverish alarm lest their Communist competitors should outstrip them in a world increasingly penetrated by science and technology . |
| 18 | In Russia that introduced in 1859 had been sat two years later by a mere five candidates in all . |
| 19 | ‘ When the cortege arrived a grave ear-marked , I think , for one of the Kavanagh sisters had been opened two doors down from Patrick 's , which at this stage had a wooden crucifix made and erected by Peter and crazy pavings which I gather were stepping stones from a stream on the homestead and mentioned in one of the poems . |
| 20 | The circumlocution obscured the compelling fact that the earlier Bill had been abandoned two months after the outbreak of war with Germany . |
| 21 | When the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , a series of inner area studies , commissioned by the government , had been completed and a White Paper , Policy for the Inner Cities , had been issued two years previously . |
| 22 | In a taped voluntary statement said to have been given by MacIver , a lorry driver , he told Inspector Angus Chisholm he had been approached two weeks earlier in a pub by a Glasgow taxi driver he knew called Joe Hughes . |
| 23 | The route had been reopened two weeks previously following an attack in January when two people were killed . |
| 24 | The young wine , which had been delivered two days earlier from the cellars of a certain Monsieur Chapautier had been identified by Dr Davies , an admirer of fine wine and port from an early age , as having all the signs of a vintage which would mature to perfection by the 1993/94 conference season . |