Example sentences of "had [been] [adv] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 2 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 3 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
| 4 | On the previous days they had been out to some meals , but she had also cooked for them . |
| 5 | At the end of the protracted negotiations with her great-aunt 's executors , and the vendor 's solicitors , Hugh and Molly had been out to several dinners in bistros , for which she insisted she paid her share . |
| 6 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 7 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 8 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 9 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 10 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 11 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 12 | ‘ The pits are so dramatic , and there 's so many of them , that we feel someone would have noticed if the whales had been there in such numbers in previous years . ’ |