Example sentences of "[coord] had been [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had a dubious work record , or had been in any kind of trouble , it often did n't matter . |
| 2 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 3 | I knew only that it was dark , and had been for some while . |
| 4 | He was their paying guest and had been since that afternoon seven years ago when he had tracked Rachel Gebler down to her home in this seaside suburb close to the famous swimming beaches . |
| 5 | It was a new school for us too , but at least we were all there together , and had been in Junior School together . |
| 6 | The 2nd Battalion , Royal Regiment of Fusiliers , was then the infantry battalion in the ACE Mobile Force , and had been in that role since May 1987 . |
| 7 | Leader of the ‘ Prague Spring ’ reform movement that was crushed by Soviet tanks in 1968 , Dubcek was 70 when he died in Prague , and had been in intensive care after his car plunged off a road in heavy rain on September 1 . |
| 8 | This should have been no problem as she was a swimming champion of the South London Schools and had been in excellent health . |
| 9 | Of the sixteen women in their survey who were currently working-class and had been in institutional care , ten had premarital pregnancies . |
| 10 | The reference to ‘ all the circumstances ’ was not included in the Bill , but had been in earlier legislation , and was reinstated for fear that the courts might read into the omission a legislative intention that was not truly held . |