Example sentences of "had been [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably , many of the young men Crawford had been engaged at great expense to coach found themselves in khaki instead of cricket whites . |
| 2 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 3 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 4 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 5 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 6 | Although the talks had been called at short notice in an attempt to reduce bilateral tensions , particularly in the light of recent failures in official negotiations , they were felt by press observers to have produced only ambiguous results . |
| 7 | I tried to look pleased when she told me that Prentice had been ringing at half-hourly intervals since mid-afternoon and had left a multiple-choice list of numbers where I could get him that evening . |
| 8 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 9 | Sliding hiatel hernia had been seen at preoperative cineradiography in 16 of 21 patients with follow up endoscopy , but no paraoesophageal hernia . |
| 10 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 11 | The eagle had been sighted at various points all over the British Isles by enthusiastic birdwatchers , most of them amateurs . |
| 12 | No part of it had been exercised at 31st March 1991 . |
| 13 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 14 | The accord replaced the 1983 Defence and Economic Co-operation Agreement [ see p. 32588 ] which had expired in December 1988 but had been extended at six-monthly intervals since then in view of the political uncertainties in Greece . |
| 15 | He spoke to the officer on desk duty who said that a complaint against Russell had been made at another station . |
| 16 | In four patients cirrhosis of the liver had been diagnosed at histopathological examination of liver biopsies . |
| 17 | Whether the production work sharing is something that is still to be decided er at the start of that phase but on the equipment , we were er originally entitled to thirty three percent of the common equipment er when we last gave evidence to the committee the U K work share for equipment stood at some thirty six percent of those that had been selected at that time . |
| 18 | The teachers had been trained at two training colleges in Kemmendine , those for primary schools studying for one year and those for middle schools for two years . |
| 19 | At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow . |
| 20 | The different perspectives of EP and parents were reflected in the confusion over what had been decided at that meeting . |
| 21 | Mr Campbell said that during the first incident , when Mr Friel and the two younger accused had been shouting at each other in the shopping centre , the lawyer had struck the 15-year-old on the face with the dog leash . |
| 22 | He had a face that was both sensuous and battered — his nose had been broken at some time — with deep pouches under his dark eyes . |
| 23 | James said he was told after the accident by the police that he had been recorded at 153 mph . |
| 24 | Wexford had seen that glass and teak lamp in a Kingsmarkham shop and noted it had been priced at twenty-five pounds , one and a quarter times Hatton 's weekly wage . |
| 25 | One of Shaughnessy 's sources , with close links to Israeli intelligence , actually claimed to have heard the tapes of these telephone intercepts , and another , well-connected with the US intelligence community , confirmed not only that the Iranian Embassy 's calls had been monitored at that time but also the substance of the Lovejoy — Niknam conversations . |
| 26 | No father ( of a case or control ) had accumulated a recorded dose of more than 5 mSv before his child was conceived , and no father had been monitored at any time in the four years before his child was conceived . |
| 27 | The fact that local people had not been informed of the exploratory work as it proceeded , or asked what they thought , had been discussed at some length during the evening , and there seemed to be little doubt that people who are to be " invaded " by a major installation for which they will bear much incidental , site-specific cost , would like to be party to discussions about the project . |
| 28 | In addition , inter-ministerial committees were to be set up to settle administrative questions which , until then , had been discussed at ministerial level . |
| 29 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 30 | Shortly before the February 1992 meeting it had been reported that OPEC production in January had been running at 24,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , about 70,000 bpd above the level in December 1991 and the highest levels since the 25,000,000 bpd recorded in 1980 . |