Example sentences of "and [vb past] been [vb pp] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gazzer was twenty-two years old and had been compared in looks to a pit bull , entirely to the dog 's advantage . |
| 2 | The same typewriter had been used to address it , it bore a second class stamp and had been posted in London WC1 . |
| 3 | It was of distinctive hand-laid paper with a griffin watermark and had been posted in Perugia the previous Thursday . |
| 4 | Halford had made nine unsuccessful applications for promotion to deputy chief constable and had been suspended in December 1990 . |
| 5 | The breed originated from the Jutland Black Pied , which was known a century ago as a hardier but less productive type of the black pied lowland group and had been bred in Denmark for a very long time . |
| 6 | Hersh 's book attracted libel suits in the UK over its claims that the UK newspaper proprietor Robert Maxwell had close links with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and that he , together with a member of his Daily Mirror newspaper staff , had helped Mossad to track down Mordechai Vanunu , a nuclear technician who leaked details of Israel 's nuclear programme and had been imprisoned in Israel since 1986 [ see p. 35922 ] . |
| 7 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 8 | While Paddy Mayne and his men were busily raiding , Stirling had finally succumbed to his desert sores and had been hospitalized in Cairo . |
| 9 | She had long shapely legs and had been known in Moscow by her nickname , ‘ The Smooch ’ . |
| 10 | Instead , bloated catalogues bulged with inferior stock and works which properly belonged in the routine day sales and had been promoted in order to provide ballast for the smarter evening sessions . |