Example sentences of "[noun] had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every Street in the Gallowgate and the Calton had become a parking place for horses , hansom cabs , buses that could well have been the ‘ taxis of Waterloo' if Napoleon had been on our side , broughams with the seats held together by faith and carpet tacks , open coaches decorated with scraps of cloth and coloured paper , growling , fuming motor-cars … the invasion of the East End of Glasgow was total . |
| 2 | It was only when everyone rose to their feet , shook hands and made a beeline for the cooking tent — where , it emerged , Balvinder Singh had been for the last half-hour — that I realized that the ceremony was over . |
| 3 | The average age of single deck vehicles was 10.3 years , while the county 's 88 more recently introduced mini-buses had been on the roads an average of 5.3 years . |
| 4 | Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal . |
| 5 | Stanley Spencer had been through the war ; he had experienced the horror , the vulgarity , of war . |
| 6 | Ari found it was strangely comforting to be told how confused Ewan had been at the time he 'd turned his back on his family . |
| 7 | If this card had been with either North or South the slam would have been a 75-per-cent chance . |
| 8 | I saw nothing of them : the eight-yard-high obelisk was swathed in wooden bandages , as impenetrable as Scott 's Monument had been in Edinburgh . |
| 9 | When we last spoke , you told me that you were reading in bed until eleven-thirty , when you went to sleep , and your last sortie from the bedroom had been to the kitchen for milk at approximately ten-forty . |
| 10 | One former member of the Royal Corps of Signals had been to Hong Kong preventing the ‘ illegal entry of persons ’ , which would have come in handy for protecting intruders at Goldfinger 's headquarters . |
| 11 | Magistrates were told that the defendant had been to Mr. White 's bank and had offered to pay the money stolen from them . |
| 12 | It was then revealed that the two brothers had been on the brink of a merger with a hotel group , a highly respectable one with over fifty good solid hotels in the provinces . |
| 13 | Whenever there was something amiss in the district she wondered where her brothers had been at the time , and as she had been making her way to Sainsbury 's this thought had yet again crossed her mind . |
| 14 | Local youth offices had been in existence in a few cities as early as 1909 in Mainz ( founded by the mayor Georg Schmidt ) and 1910 in Hamburg . |
| 15 | Bernice had been through a lot in the days they had been separated and he was proud of her . |
| 16 | His first impression of Galvone had been of a mobster , but Newman had met other reasonably honest Americans holding high positions who had made the same initial impression . |
| 17 | In the whole region , perhaps 800,000 animals had been on the move , and about 20,000 were thought to have been killed by the hunters . |
| 18 | Most of his earlier stage designs had been for opera , and the latest of them , Simon Boccanegra , had been the big hit of the preceding season . |
| 19 | Veronica had been to the flat : was n't it possible she might have left something behind which Loretta could claim to have found ? |
| 20 | If only all school trips had been like this . |
| 21 | In spite of the fact that the Carews had been in Ireland since the middle of the seventeenth century , he still regarded himself as an expatriate living among a semi-barbarous people in a semi-barbarous land . |
| 22 | And Widnes general manager Frank Myler , insisted that no club had been in contact regarding a possible move by Davies from Naughton Park . |
| 23 | ‘ I was angry and upset to read that somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 24 | Crosby blew his top after learning of the Coppell link and said yesterday : ‘ I was angry and upset to read somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 25 | In terms of flying hours both units had been in use for about 55 000 hours , during which something like 20 000 flights ( or landings ) had been made . |
| 26 | So David had been on duty this morning , had he ? |
| 27 | Police said David had been to a pal 's engagement party at a nearby pub but how he was killed remained a mystery . |
| 28 | No one could tell she and Nevil had been in it . |
| 29 | The programme had been under way for some time , studying liquid-liquid reactions with disappointing results . |
| 30 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |