Example sentences of "[num ord] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first had arrived ten days before , and the second had been delivered four days before . |
| 2 | At the year end the combined membership reached 308 thus exceeding the magic 300 , yet the trading surplus was only £15 , with a mere £130 on capital account , although new greens at the 6th and 8th had been laid out at some cost . |
| 3 | Second mission came on March 6 , 1944. it was the day all the Mighty Eighth had been waiting for . |
| 4 | Provisions of May the fourth had been seriously overstepped but the communists did not realize this and thought that more land was available for redistribution . |
| 5 | On 27 July Churchill made his last appearance in the House of Commons ( his first had been when my father was head boy at Thame ) , and after the summer the country accelerated into a general-election campaign . |
| 6 | The teds of the fifties had been replaced by the mods , who at first had been a very exclusive , almost secret , underground working class movement . |
| 7 | They had gone away together , she and Paul , to Papa 's fury ; and at first had been wildly happy . |
| 8 | And the smell , which at first had been tentative , elusive , no more than an alien tincture on the air , now seemed to seep into the passage with the strong effluvium of death . |
| 9 | The first had been during an attack by the Saracens in the Middle Ages and the second during an earthquake . |
| 10 | Lithuania first had been an independent state in mediaeval times , until the end of the 14th century . |
| 11 | If you go back erm or let's go back to the second half of the seventeenth century , that 's always a good time to go to erm when erm well it was just after the English revolution , just after the English civil war , the Charles the First had been executed . |
| 12 | They would deny the right of those whose standard of living is already at or above the average to any further improvement until the submerged fifth had been given more or less equivalent benefits . |
| 13 | In 1951 the World Peace Pagoda was built , and in 1954 the Sixth Great InternatIonal Council of Buddhist monks and learned laity was opened ( the fifth had been at Mandalay in 1871 under the patronage of King Mindon ) . |
| 14 | Experts said it was possible the first three dogs had been doped to go faster , while the fourth and fifth had been slowed down . |
| 15 | At three o'clock the 26th had been ordered into an attack across the Goldbach , driving the superior forces of the allies before them . |
| 16 | The long birdie putt Beck had earlier holed for an eagle three at the 13th had been a turning point , but for Norman , who does not normally play the week before the Masters , this must have also given him encouragement . |
| 17 | Two of these Mrs Rose could trace but the third had been with Crabb when they said goodbye and was not amongst his personal possessions returned to Crabb 's mother by ‘ Smith ’ . |
| 18 | Within the Tower 's walls stood its keep , the imposing White Tower which for the two hundred and fifty years since the reign of Henry the Third had been regularly whitewashed . |
| 19 | One contained two inhumations and a food vessel , the second fragments of inhumation , and the third had been disturbed and no remains were found . |
| 20 | But the third had been different . |
| 21 | Because the third had been one of their own . |
| 22 | The third had been expected for some time . |
| 23 | The hospital said one remained seriously ill on a ventilator while the third had been discharged . |
| 24 | Something at last had been accomplished . |